Sopers in Kent Odd Notes in approximate date order.
1600; 1700; 1800; '41; '51; '61; '71; '81; '91; '01; '11
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Sopers in Kent Odd Notes in approximate date order.
1600; 1700; 1800; '41; '51; '61; '71; '81; '91; '01; '11
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Seems few if any Soper families were established in Kent pre 1800's, but by 1881 110 Sopers there
Nicholao Sopere mentioned in 'Dover Charters' pub1902 : GoogleBooks.com
Aldithe Sopere with the bakery & garden adjoining [? in Rochester]. 6d. Fine 7 marks [tax] : Feoffment c1200 made from Walter, son of Dereman to Rochester de Bardingeleye [6d rent pa] & later R de B to Rochester Priory: Witnesses: de Rokesle, Buffin, Parlebien,Potin [cf. Potyn], de Talamo, Helya, the merchant, Coc, Walter Foliot who wrote the charter : Endorements: made 13thC, 14thC & c1574 [There's nothing to show where the property was. A clue is that some witnesses on other documents are connected to Rochester]. source
Stephen Sopere, polentar (R) [probably a poletier, fisherman] : 1302/3 : Rolls of Freemen, Canterbury City : Canterbury Cathedral Archives: ref CC/R/F/2 www.a2a
John Sopere, a man of the liberty of the Cinque Ports paid 1 shilling (about the minimum amount) : Lay Subsidy Roll of 1334/5, page 76 [consisting then of Hastings, New Romney, Hythe, Dover & Sandwich with towns of Rye & Winchelsea]
Thomas Sopere, of the Hundred of Boughton [3m E of Faversham], paid 1 shilling 4� pence : page 101, Kent Lay Subsidy Roll of 1334/5 : source
William Soper & wife Christian, deforciants [sellers]; 5 messuages in Westgate, Canterbury, for 100 marks silver, to querents John Austyn & John Wynterbourne; 12 Nov 1427 medievalgenealogy
William Sopere & William Canon, querents [buyers]; 6 Oct 1437; deforciants, Thomas Pakkere & wife Ellen; Plea of covenant. on messuage & 20a at Ebbene, Kent : Thomas & Ellen acknowledged the tenements to be the right of William Sopere & have remised & quitclaimed them from themselves & the heirs of Ellen to Sopere & Canon & the heirs of William Sopere for ever. Sopere & Canon got 20 marks of silver. medievalgenealogy
Geoffrey Soper & wife Joan deforciants [sellers] 27 Jan 1441; given 100 marks of silver for 3 messuages, 78a land, 4a wood, 12 shillings rent & rent of 7 hens in Osprenge. Plea of covenant. to Thomas Poteman, John Seyntclere, Hugh Brent, Stephen Chirche, William Teryshasse [sic], Seman (Semannus) atte Sole & Robert Drayton, querents. medievalgenealogy
Alice Soper, daughter of Laurence Soper m.John Burges 1489 yeoman : [book says 'presumably Sopper was a Freeman, but we have no Laurence Soper'] : however 'Laurence Soper butcher 1465' is in the index 'Roll of The Freemen of Canterbury 1392-1800 pub.1903 : archive.org
Thomas Soper was an executor (with Rauff of Latham & Thomas Ferby) to the will of Andrew Ferby, 9 Jan 1505/6 : proved 6 Dec 1507. Burial at St Paul's Cray church [Chislehurst, Kent], leaving land at Mayfield. Andrew's wife was Margaret, daughter of John Gaynesford of Carshalton, Surrey
Gilbert Soper & Henry Hicks were defendants in 'Jowles v Soper', 1664, Kent : Case about 'money' : Plaintiff Henry Jowles : ref C 6/168/81 british-history.ac.uk : [connection to Limbrough v Baker, 1657-58, London?]
Anne Soper m.William Tilghman, 15 Nov 1665, probably at Faversham, Kent (also Tighman) : [pro] record a court case Soper v. Tilghman: Middlesex 1666 : perhaps the 1664 case above is also connected
Barbados Sobers. It is thought that this family originated from the Isle of Thanet area. Slave & rum traders who became affluent & moved to US see [presumably early 1700's] ..... Sober and Soper are common last names still in present day Barbados. source
Rev Thomas Erskine Souper 1732. 'Minister. No Issue' ancestry.com [Thomas Erskine Souper m.Salome FISHER 15 Feb 1836, St Mary Magdalene, Woolwich, Kent (bmd)] : [connection? Rev Francis Abraham Souper's granchildren, bapt at this church, 1872]
John Soper a mariner, now belonging to 'HMS Medway', 3 Aug 1750 Catalogue ref prob11/782 nationalarchives.gov.uk
William Soaper of Welton, nr.Darkin, Kent, lodged at the house of Burton Cadwalider, Carey St, London [N of Fleet St]. On 17 Nov 1763, he was paying for four night's lodgings at the bar, when he put down a bundle containing his coat & waistcoat. It was stolen, value �2 5s. Soper said to William Hanlow "You dog, you have got my bundle", he shook him and the bundle dropped from inside his overcoat. Hanlow, paid for a glass of brandy & ran down Bell Yard, holding an opened knife, persued by Soper, but after 40 yds, a passer by detained Hanlow, aged 40. He noticed Soper was 'a little in liquor'. Hadlow was sentenced to transportation, at the Old Bailey 7 Dec : oldbaileyonline.org : [can't find Welton or Darkin in Kent, perhaps they were fictitious]
Jane Soaper of Kent, her will proved, Mar 1771 ref: 199817, Public Records Office englishorigins.com
Thomas Soper of Birling m.Fanny Newman of S [Snodland?], 2 Apr 1771, [probably related to Nicholas Newman, a Farmer at Cox�s Farm] source
Joanna Soper m.William Brown (1777-1829), 9 Apr 1808, St. Leonard's, Deal, had 4 children at Deal - from Carolyn Depp source
John Soper bur.1777 at Kent : more details available from Non-Conformist bmdregisters
John Soper (-1779) fisherman of Greenwich, was setting in the North Channel for sprats, parted from his anchor & drove to the back of Margate Sands, where he, his 2 sons & 2 servants, all perished. Recent hurricane blew 30 vessels onshore [much loss of life]; in 'Stamford Mercury 21 Jan 1779 [not linked]
William Soper a fisherman of St Nicholas Deptford. Will Register 26 Jan 1779 prob 11/1049 nationalarchives.gov.uk
William Soper of Kent, his will proved, Jan 1779 ref: 200048, Public Records Office englishorigins.com
? Soper paid land tax in Fisher Lane, East Greenwich 1780 sites.rootsweb.com
Elizabeth Soper Redpath bapt 5 May 1782, Dartford, Kent, 5th child (1st daughter) of John Redpath & wife Jane source
William Soper & Elizabeth Phillips m.St John's [C of E] , Margate, 2 Dec 1784 both "of this parish"; witnesses Rebecker Phillips & Henry Roaf opc.org. researcher Carolyn Depp says their children may be William & Grace [m.George Hayward 1803] both bapt their childen in Congregational churches at Deal & Thanet"; rootsweb; Carolyn adds other dau's? Martha Soper m.James Street 1807 Maidstone & Joanna Soper m.William Brown 1808 Deal
William Soper otp m.Elizabeth Philips (Phillips) otp by licence 27 Dec 1784 witnesses Rebecker Phillips & Henry Roaf, St John the Baptist, Margate source [a 2nd m there 1802]
Samuel Soper, apprenticed to John Pix, butcher 9 Mar 1789 at Gillingham, Kent; Register of Duties Paid for Apprentices' Indentures scan
Elizabeth Soper (c1737-?) 54, widow of William, of St Nicholas, Deptford [, Greenwich]. Trinity house petition 1791 : Trinity House Petitions from BritishOrigins.com : [perhaps a claim for relief?]
Valentine Soper, apprenticed to Samuel Hatch, taylor 23 Jun 1792 at Rainham, Kent; Register of Duties Paid for Apprentices' Indentures scan
Elizabeth Soper, widow of St Nicholas Deptford, Kent, her will proved, 23 Dec 1795 ref 200038, Public Records Office www.englishorigins.com : [can be bought online A2a.gov.uk]
Henry Soper bur.1799 at Kent : more details available from non-conformist; bmdregisters
William Soper (c1802-?) in Thurnham. Mary Claggett [assume the mother] in a bastardy case at the West Kent Quarter Sessions Index, Folio 139 rootsweb.com
Valentine Soper m.Maria Minter by Banns 24 Nov 1802 both otp, witnesses George Minter, Charles Mummery & Catherine Kember, at St John The Baptist, Margate, both signed parish records [a 2nd m there 1784] : [a victualler at Deal 1803] : a Minter site suggests that Maria b.29 Sep 1782, bapt 20 Oct, Thanet, reverted to her maiden name by 1804 & remarried Thomas Potts at Thanet, both otp (the minister crossed out spinster & entered widow)
Grace Soper m.George Hayward (b.c1783/6 Deal in census) 18 Apr 1803 at Deal, Kt; Grace's siblings Ann, Joanna Sarah, William all married at Deal between 1803 & 1811. researcher Carolyn Depp is trying to locate info... 'Were they children of the William Soper & Elizabeth Phillips, who m.1784? Margate' [no Soper entries vis St John's, Margate registers, 1783-92] : rootsweb : [connection? a William Soper Hayward (c1799-1850) carpenter of Deal m.1821]
a thread Sep'13 on William Soper Hayward (c1799-1850) carpenter of Deal also has more info from George & Grace's grx4grdau Pearl Atkins; Mr Hayward had a grocers shop, Middle St, Deal & he re-m.Ann Tucker
Elizabeth Soper (c1758-?) 47, widow of William, of Stowage, Deptford [nr Greenwich]. Trinity house petition 1805 : Trinity House Petitions from BritishOrigins.com : [connection to John/Amy of Stowage 1816?] :
John Soper m.Obedience Slatter 19 Apr 1806, Speldhurst, Kent : children;
William Soper m.Gertrude Venner [or Verner Soper?] 18 Jan 1806 St.Leonard's, Deal : William b.1 Jul 1780* St Giles, Dev; his father William Soper, a builder [from his 2nd m.1838] [brother? a John b.c1787 St Giles a London builder, m.Eliz. Drinkwater 1819, Lon]
Martha Soper m.James Street, 25 May 1807, parish of All Saints, Maidstone : from researcher Carolyn Depp rootsweb
J Soper, Tonbridge Wells, innkeeper, certificates granted before 3 Aug : London Gazette in The Times 10 Aug 1808
Ms ? Soper bur.1810 at Kent : husband or father: Mr Soper : more details available from non-conformist bmdregisters
Richard Soper m.Charlotte Geary 10 Sep 1810, Rochester, Kent
Thomas Soper (c1800-?) Rainham, 'nr.Rochester & nr.Chatham', an address used by Abraham Sugden (1799-) seaman, age 14 on HMS Goliath, when writing to mother Mrs Sugden [Frances Soper who m.Abraham Sugden (1776-?)] Feb 1814 to Mar 1819. (In 1813 the address was Mrs Sugden's Boarding School, Gillingham). The transcriber suggests Soper a relative & Mrs Sugden stayed there in school holidays; Abraham tells mother Frances 'if my father had not been as bad a man, we all should have been happy; then you would have been comforted and beheld your family smiling about you; but alas; God Almighty will punish him for all his wickedness' source & tree : [??'61cen a Thomas 60, waterman b.Sheerness at Sheppey (& 48 in Minster, Kt '51)] : [??could Soper be running a school - an infant school master, William Soper, was in Margate from c1831 & perhaps son? Francis T Soper was running it by 1861?] : [2 Thomas Sopers had children in Gillingham ; Thomas & Fanny (Newman) 1779-88, m.1771 at Birling (nr Gillingham) & Thomas & Catherine 1783-91] : [Abraham named his son, Soper Thomas Sugden (1839-1929) navy engineer, biog]
William Soaper bapt.1814 at Kent to James Soaper & Catherine Soaper : more details available from non-conformist bmdregisters
Joseph Soper of The New Inn, Tunbridge Wells, advert saying prevelent opinion says Inns of the town are extravigant & many detered from visiting. He offers moderate charges, excellent beds, choice wines & extensive stables, particularly suited to commercial gentleman, in Morning Post (pub.Lon) 16 Jun 1814 ; from newspapers.bl.uk : scan
Thomas Soperm.Leah Maplesden 29 Apr 1816 Ashurst, Kt (igi) genesreunited
John Soper (c1762-?) 54, & wife Amy Soper of Stowage, Deptford. Trinity house petition 1816 : Trinity House Petitions from BritishOrigins.com : [perhaps a claim for relief?] : [connection to William/Elizabeth of Stowage 1805?]
P Soper, of the sloop Samuel 1817 : Report that vessel is stranded. There are also salvage papers for the same year. From papers of the Cob family www.a2a [s]
George Soper m.Dinah Simmons 7 Dec 1818 Frindsbury, Kent
Valentine Soper in a Kent Court, Lent session 1820; sentence death : from Criminal Registers from Ancestry.com (where crime available) : [a Valentine m.at Margate 1802] : [no b or d in igi]
William Hayward [or 'William Soper Hayward'] (of this parish) m.Louisa Stokes m.21 Jul 1821 Deal, Kt**
John Soper & James Camfield, stewards of 'The Society of Brotherly United Philanthropists', long established at Greenwich, Kent : Taken to court Mar 1822. An expelled free member, James Margetts, carpenter claimed �1 6d compensation for 9 days when he was too infirm to work. But he was seen working. Judgment 1825 that he should be paid : 'King v Soper & Camfield' : google books The stewards paid but did not reinstate, so disobeyed the court & were fined �5 each. Still refusing, prosecuted in King v Soper & found guilty by a jury :
Hannah Soper (c1822-1874) b.Sandwich, Kent, d.Islington, Lon m.1847 E.Lon to Frederick Hughesdon (1819-1894) b.7 Aug Bethnal Green, Msx. d.Islington, Msx thehunthouse.net; [Hannah Soper m.Frederick Hughesdon Jan>Mar 1847, London East (bmd)]
Sarah Soper b.10 Jun 1823, Kent, Eng; d.Vermont, US. m.George Francis; (their parents Robert Soper & Elizabeth & Rebecca Francis & unknown) ; their son, Joseph Francis (1848-1931) b.13 Dec Upper Haling, Kent d.Iowa; Sarah d.1853 at sea, her husband d,Woodbury, Iowa, US 1877; Joseph's son (1878-1974) d.Washington : www.ysearch.org; End of a researched maternal line of a person who took Y-DNA paternal test; contact Jean Knight (jeankiloh'at'aol.com)
Thomas Soper was involved in a property deed at Boley Hill, Rochester, Kent, 22 Nov 1823
Mary Ann Soper m.Rev William Lyle 16 Jun 1823, Kent. Children: Mary Ann Soper Lyle b.1824 [1826 below?] , Bethesda Lyle b.1829, William Lyle b.1831 & Serena Lyle b.1834; William b.19 May 1795 Launcells, Stratton, Con to parents John Lyle & Mary Wickett; 1816 converted; taught school, became Primitive Methodist preacher 1826; circuits, inc 1827 London, 1831 Grimsby 1833 Hull, to Canada, 1838 Brampton (Canada), 1842 Toronto, 1872 Toronto ll; '61cen in Canada with Mary; d.1873 source
William Soper of Margate, carpenter, 1826 sold to Charles Hayward of Deal, carpenter & his wife Elizabeth a 'newly erected tenement & land at Nelson St, Deal' [from bundle of deeds for 10 Nelson St; inc 1809 conveyance for land abutting the new Street called Nelson St mentioning William Soper of Deal, carpenter source ['41cen]
Mary Ann Soper (c1826-?) b.c1826 Kent, England : m.27 Mar 1856 at Congregational Chapel Freeman St, Adelaide, S.Australia to George Bigg, also as 'Mary Anne' & m.1846 NSW : d.1903 igi [1825 above?] : [a Mary Ann b.1831 Margate, to school owners 1840] : [also a Mary Ann b.1825 Chatham]
William Soper, Margate : 2 documents, personal affairs 1828, 1839 : From the papers of Francis William Cobb of Margate www.a2a.pro.gov.uk ['41cen]
William Soper m.Mary Ann Atwood 1829, Margate See Biog in Religious Sopers: William bpt 7 Dec 1806 at Deal to William & Gertrude Venner m.Jan 1806
John Soper m.Sarah Neame Lissenden 14 Jun 1830 Milton nr. Sittingbourne, Kent (igi)
? Soper paid land tax in Royal Hill, East Greenwich 1830, perhaps with Mrs Morris, Wm Johnson, Ann Brown
sites.rootsweb.com
Thomas Soper occupied a house & premises (Owner; David Macclistone Allen) - 'Quantities' 18d : Offham Tithe award schedule nr118 : The Tithe Commutation surveys carried out 1830's to 1840s : [Offham SW of Rochester W of Maidstone] : source : [a cooper in '51 Directory?] : [a wheelwright age 50 '41 & '61?]
a Soper was known to have carried out a business in the 1830's as a �Limeburner and Flintmaker� in the Saxon section of the Chislehurst Caves, 'a man going by the name of Soper'. It seems to have been the last time the mines were actually worked : The flints were used earlier for British army �Flinklock� muskets. The caves possibly once used to store smuggled goods. In 1909 a Times article, about a meeting of Anthropological Institute, Soper said he dug a well in 1860 at Chiselhurst Caves, to check water level. It was identified as an ancient grain storage pit & the druid alters were miners platforms. source
William Soper builder (& undertaker), King St, Margate, Kent 1832-4 Pigot & Co [also 1840] : [a retired builder Wilmot Soper, spinster of Woolwich. Will Register 26 Nov 1834 : nationalarchives.gov.uk prob 11/1839]
John Soper (1836-?), b.Woolwich, Kent, 24 Jun 1836, nr98822, Admiralty's Registers of Seamen's Services nationalarchives.gov.uk ADM 188/112
Charles Thomas Soper (c1815-1893) m.Lydia Ann Taylor 14 Aug 1836 at Minster (Civil parish), Sheerness, Isle of Sheppey, witnesses James ?Taylor & Edward Jarrett (parish clerk) : (Charles a dockyard sawyer b.c1815 Sheerness & Lydia b.c1813 Gillingham, Kt, a telegraph clerk) source
Thomas Soper m.Mary Ann Windsor Jan>Mar 1838, Sheppey District (bmd)
William Soper m.Elizabeth Dakin* at Thanet Jan>Mar 1838 (*or Sarah Cox, Ann Curtis or Hannah Parker) [not obvious '41cen] : ['51cen niece Sarah Dakin 13 scholar b.Walworth, Sy with William 64 retired builder & Elizabeth 51 b.Southwark, Sy also Harriet 24 b.Broadway, Dev; ???could they have both brought children to wedding?]
Maria Soper m.Isaac Brotherwood Jul>Sep 1839, St Martins, Lon (bmd)
Soper J Sugden, Engineer RN Officer's Service Records, 16 Sept 1859; Malling, Kent, b.4 July 1839 : [another record says 28 Jan?] ref ADM 196/24 Nation Archives : see Navy Records [connection? to Mrs Sugden & Thomas Soper 1814 her son 14 in Navy]
Sopers mentioned p.102, p.103 & p.135 Pigots Directory for Kent, 1839 genuki
Henry Soper & Charlotte Soper bpt.Lucy Soper 15 Dec 1839, William John Soper 3 Nov 1841 both at St Alphage, Greenwich, Charlotte Ann Soper 30 Jan 1853 at St Paul, Deptford : [William a lighterman of Barking, Essex biog]
Henry Soper m.Charlotte Forrester Apr>Jun 1839, Greenwich, Lon (bmd) m.Charlotte Forrett St Nicholas, Deptford bpt.St Lukes, Chelsea 31 Jan 1813 to William & Mar Ann*
Obedience Soper, a milliner or dressmaker of Hadlow Rd : Pigots 1840 Directory for Tonbridge source : [John/Obedience m.1806, see biog]
Mr Soper, a lodging house keeper at Rose Cottage : Piggots 1840 Directory for Tonbridge source : [only Sopers in Tonbridge John/Obedience m.1806, see biog]
John Soper, 6 Marine Parade 'builder & undertaker' : Pigots Directory, 1840 for Margate, Kent [see '41cen]
William Soper & Mary Ann Soper master & mistress at an infants school, Dane Place in Pigots Directory, 1840 for Margate, Kent : William & Mary, school teachers also mentioned in 1839 source : [a William m.Mary Ann Atwood 23 Mar 1829 Margate]
William Soper, 17 King St, a builder & undertaker, Pigots Directory, 1840 for Margate, Kent (also 1834-9) : [a retired builder '61cen?] : [John m.Elizabeth Maria Drinkwater 1819 Fleet St, Lon]
Kent 1841 census, 48 people, a selection below goto full list
Arthur Sopher 40-4 green grocer, Mable 30-4 Richard Copher 75-9 milkman, Mary Stone 75-9 scan [believe Sopwith not Sopher]
Charles Soper 25-9 a 'j sawyer' [journeyman (skilled)] at New Wood St, Minster, Isle of Sheppey, Lydia Soper 25-9, Charles Soper 4, Catherine Soper 2, John Soper 4m. all b.Kent scan : [Charles m.Lydia Taylor, Minster 14 Aug 1836] : [family at Deptford, Kent '61]
Charlotte Soper 45-9 of independent means, at Caroline Place, Chatham with Charlotte Soper 25-9, Mary Soper 20-4, Maria Soper 17, Elizabeth Soper 16, Amelia Soper 15 (all but Amelia b.Kent) scan : [see '71 4 unm sisters still there]
John Soper 55-59 (no occupation given) at Church Lane, Tonbridge, Obedience Soper 55-9, Elenor Soper 25-9 / Katural Read 15-9, Celia Willes 15-9, Mary Hope 15-9 servant. John not b.Kent : [John m.Obedience Slatter 1806, Speldhurst, Kent see biog]
John Soper 30-34 carpenter at Parade, Margate, St John the Baptist, Kent & Susanna 30-34, both b.Kent scan
Thomas Soper 50-4 wheelwright with Offham Mary Soper 50-4, Sarah Soper 15, Henry Soper 13; [only Mary & Henry b.Kent, so might guess family moved to Kent bef.1827 - not with parents at Chiddingly at 1821 census] scan [Sarah & Henry not vis '51/'61cen & no Offham births]
Thomas Soper 40-4 inn keeper at Duke of Cumberland, Barham, Kent [6m SE Canterbury]; Elizabeth Soper 30-4; Charlotte Soper 14; Elizabeth Soper 1 & servant Mary Foreman 15-19 : (Charles Hornsby was innkeeper there in '51cen (a sign inside the inn says Charles was the owner from 1836) Duke of Cumberland site) (It is now the only inn in Barham) [not obvious in '51cen or '61cen]
John Soper m.Susanna Wilmushurst 31 Jan 1841 St Mary Magdalene, Bermondsey (m.Jan>Mar as Wilmshurst)
Thomas Soper (c1803-?) 30-4 waterman at Minster, Mary 30-4 both b.Kent, & Mary Window 9 : [d.1867 see sailing Sopers]
Trayton Soper 35 shoe maker, Ann 35, Ann 9, Henry 7, Elizabeth 4, Barbara 2 at The Rocks, East Grinstead TheWeald.org : [Trayton Thomas Soper m.Ann Coates Wheeler, Tonbridge 11 Sep 1830 Tonbridge] : [a cordwainer 1851]
William Soper 30-4 infant school master at St John the Baptist, Margate, with Mary Soper 35-9, Grace Soper 11, Mary Ann Soper 9, William Soper 4, Emily Soper 2�, Hannah Soper �. All b.Kent : scan : [a William m.Mary Ann Atwood 23 Mar 1829 Margate]
William Soper 55-9 a 'chulwright?/blawsmith?'* at Salutation Ally, Charlton next Woolwich parish, Greenwich borough, Susanah Soper 40-4, Elenor Soper 15-9, Elizabeth Soper 7 & Robert Thompson 9 all b.outside Kent scan : [*perhaps blacksmith?, neighbors many labs, butcher, tailor, also blacksmith & silversmiths] : [neighbors labs, tailor, butcher] : [family not obvious later, ??an Elenor 27 in Weymouth, Dor, b.Dor]
Henry Soper m.Ann Saxby 6 Mar 1844, St Martins in the Field, Lon (m.Jan>Mar) : Henry ?bpt.1816 to Thomas/Obedience, a plumber of Tunbridge Wells
Robert Soper m.Jul>Sep 1845 Medway [to either Caroline Down, Mary Fullagar, Mary Ann Gorham or Elizabeth Jennings]
Sarah Soper pauper patient from 16 Jul 1847 Kent institution, Kent; from Lunacy Patients Admission Registers scan: [not linked yet]
John Soper builder of Newby's Place, Market St; (Margate) in Williams Directory for Isle of Thanet 1849 Margate Local History
John Soaper m.Caroline bef.1850 [not vis bmd]; John b.Aberdeen, Scot c1838 & Caroline b.Lon
Kent 1851 census, a selection below
Britannia S Soper 11 scholar at school, 20 Crooms Hill, Greenwich, Kent '51cen, b.Spittal Sq, London; 7 female students 8-18; cook 31w & housemaid 21unm; scan : [dau of Henry Soper (c1802-1867) a Spittlefield silk weaver see]
Charles Soper 36 sawyer at 4 Shroots? Terrace, Deptford, Kent '51cen, b.Sheerness, Kent; Lydia Soper 35 - b.Gillingham, Kent; Charles Soper 14; Catharine Soper 12; John Soper 10; George Soper 8 all Sheerness; William Soper 6; Henry Soper 5 all scholars; Emma Soper 3; Robert Soper 10m all b.Deptford, Kent; also in property household of James Reeve 46 head (lodger crossed out) labourer b.Cambs, wife Louisa 46 b.Enfield? scan : [Charles m.Lydia Taylor, Minster 14 Aug 1836]
Charlotte Soper 38 widowed laundress?? at 57 New Street, Greenwich, St Nicholas, Kent '51cen; Lucy Soper 11 both b.Greenwich, St Nicholas, Kent; Mary Ann Soper 7 both scholars; Henry Soper 4; Alfred Sam Soper 1m all b.Deptford, Kent; sharing address with household of Jacob Clark 30, Emily 23 & twins 4m scan : [Henry m.Charlotte Forrester 1839, Greenwich]
Elizabeth Soper 14 general servant at Wellington St?, King Hill?, Deptford, St Nicholas, Kt '51cen, b.Greenwich, Essex; with William Andrews head 25 licenced vitualer; Mary Ann 24; Thomas H 5; Martha 2; Joseph 1; brother George Andrews 17 barman & servant Charles Dejon 17 potman; all b.Deptford, Kt scan : [*looks like lodger not son & does not look like Soper] : [not vis '41 or '61cen]
Hannah Soper 70 widowed house servant at Thames St, Greenwich West, Kent '51cen, b.West Wickham, Kent; mother-in-law with Thomas Parrott 49 fisherman; Ann Parroth 46; Susanna 12; Emma 10; William 4 all b.Greenwich, Kt scan : [mostly watermen on census page] : [Hannah Soper d.Oct>Dec 1851, Greenwich, Lon]
Henry Soper 33 plumber painter ext, emp 2 men, 1 apprentice at Street, Hadlow, Kent '51cen, b.Hadlow, Kent; Ann Soper 34 b.Tudley, Kent; Henry L Soper 6 scholar; Alice Soper 1; Catherine Soper 2m all b.Hadlow, Kent; with Ellen Saxby wifes sister 24 unm annuitant b.E Peckham; house servant Harriet Helusley 17 b.Hurton & vistor Jane Godden 36 married b.East Peckham scan & scan2 : [Henry m.Ann Saxby Jan>Mar 1844]
James Soper 34 married police constable at Boone St, Chapel Yard, Lee, Lewisham, Kent '51cen & dau Anne Soper 11 scholar both b.Farnham, Surrey; scan : [assume PC Soper m.Sarah; see police notes]
John Soper 67 agent to farmers office insurance at 1 Terrace, High St, Tonbridge, Kt '51cen, b.West Grinsted, Sx; Obedience Soper 70 dressmaker b.Hadlow, Kent; also ass dressmaker Susanna E Read 24unm b.Ticehurst & lodger Francis J Headland, bankers clerk b.Tonbridge, Kent scan : [John/Obedience m.1806, see biog]
John Soper 42 master carpenter employing 1 man & 11 app at 15 Kings Street, Margate, Kent '51cen, b.Deal, Kent; Susannah Soper 48 b.Margate, Kent; scan : [John m.Susanna bef.1841]
John Soper (c1837-?) age 14 trumpeter in 10th Battalion, Royal Artillery at Woolwich Barracks, Kent; b.Woolwich, Kent with gunners of the 10th Batt; 19 to 24; officers & a drummer 19 scan : [still in army '61cen] : [?a John b.c1836, father William in RA 1844 & Mary Ann] : [seems John 15 trumpeter duplicated as at home with mother Mary A at Woolwich below]
Mary Soper* 56 married fisherman's wife at 5 Wood Wharf, Greenwich, St Alphauph?, Kent '51cen, b.Wandsworth, London; with grandson John Henry Huntington? 11, scholar b.Greenwich scan ('wife m' so assume husband at sea): [*miss-transcribed 'Sofer'] : ['41cen not obvious; '61cen not vis]
Mary A Soper 43 head, widowed laundress at 10 Mill Lane, Woolwich Arsenal, Kent '51cen, b.Ireland; John Soper 15 trumpeter artillery; Mary A Soper 12; Caroline Soper 10 b.Woolwich, Kt; Harry Soper 7 all scholars b.Ireland; sharing with Mary A Clark 25 married tailoress b.Ireland, (seems separate household, but some confusion with Mary, head crossed out & wife added) scan : [William of Royal Artillery & Mary Ann m.bef 1836 military notes] : [??might speculate Mary a dau, though soldiers would return with Irish wives?; a Mary Ann Soper m.Richard Price St George Hanover Sq, Lon Jan>Mar 1849] : [seems John 14 trumpeter duplicated above at the Woolwich barraks]
Mary E Soper 6 scholar at Blackheath Hill, Greenwich, Kent '51cen, b.-, London; with 6 students 1-8; & one age 19, a governess 34unm; her sister 31unm & gen serv 16 scan freewebz.com : [not vis '61/'71cen] : [pure unchecked speculation, but a Mary Elizabeth Soper (1844-?) m.Charles Le Grys (1836-?), a house decorator & painter, dau of George Soper & Elizabeth Knight]
Robert Soaper (c1795-) 56 sailor at Fundsbury St, Rochester, Kent '51cen, b.Fundsbury, Kent, wife Elizabeth Soaper 52 pauper b.Malta (British subject) scan : [?a Robert d.Jul>Sep 1863 Aylesford, Kent] : [not vis '41cen]
Sarah A Soaper 7 scholar 26 Albion Rd, Gravesend, Kt; b.Lon '51cen; neice with J W Bennet 62 Lieut Retired, Cond Ga Pension; b.Lon; wife Ann 56 b.Portsea, Hants; niece Ann M Baduns 26 b.Lon & servant Charlotte Simpson 17 b.Kent; scan
Thomas Soper 63 wheelwright at Village, Offham, Kent '51cen, b.Chittenleigh, Sussex; Margaret Soper 63 b.Cuxton, Kent; scan : ['41cen Thomas & Mary]
Thomas Soper 48 widowed waterman at Kings Street, Minster, Isle of Sheppey, Kent '51cen, b.Sheerness, Kent; scan : [d.1867 see sailing Sopers]
William Soper 64 retired builder at 2 East Crescent, Margate, Kent '51cen, b.St Giles, Dev; wife Elizabeth 51 b.Southwark, Sy; niece Harriet 24unm b.Broadway, Dev; also wife's niece Sarah Datein/Dakin 13 scholar b.Walworth, Sy scan
William Soaper 32 painter (journeyman) at 11 Hyde St, Deptford, St Paul, Greenwich, Kt '51cen, b.Ireland; Mary A Soaper 30 b.Poplar, Lon; William J Soaper 6 b.Greenwich, Kt; Catharine Soaper 1 b.Deptford, Kt; scan & scan; [not vis '41/'61cen] : ['71cen only son vis; William 26 painter]
William Soper 23 ag lab at Lags Hill, Bromley, Kent '51cen, b.Odeham, Hampshire; nephew with Sarah Draper 56, married, head, ag lab wife b.Deptford; dau Ann 21unm b.Bromley & lodger Robert Knight 19 ag lab b.E Stonehouse, Suffolk scan : [not vis '41/'61/'71cen]
William Soper home at 2 East Crescent, Margate; 1851 & [son] John Soper builder at 15 King St, Margate Post Office Directory : [Wm, retired builder '61cen?] : [John 30-34 carpenter '41cen]
Mrs Obedience Soper a dressmaker at Tunbridge : 1851 Post Office Directory : [John/Obedience m.1806, see biog]
Thomas Soper a cooper, at Offham : 1851 Post Office Directory : [a wheelwright age 50 '41]
Henry Soper plumber & agent to the Royal Farmers' Fire & Life Office, at High Halden, Kent : 1851 : Post Office Directory, also an agent in Tunbridge directory : [see '61cen]
William [James] Soper m.Elizabeth Liverton 'Lizzie' Oct>Dec 1852, St Thomas, [Exmouth], Dev : William James Soper b.c1829-31 b.Woodbury/Wednesbury, Dev (both in St Thomas bmd dist) m.Elizabeth b.c1830-32 Withycombe/Exmouth, Dev : [assume William Soper m.Elizabeth Liverton, St Thomas, Exeter, Dev Oct>Dec 1852] : [?a William m.22 Jul 1826, St Thomas, Exeter & a William b.19 Jan 1830, Woodbury, Dev]
William Soper/Soaper (c1819-1871) b.Odiham, Hants, m.Ellen Caroline Blundell (c1830-1901) 24 Dec 1854, St Mary, Lewisham, Kent [m.Oct>Dec] : (bpt.14 Mar 1830 Chislehurst, Kent to William Blundell & Charlotte Wherry*) : [?a William bpt.31 Aug 1817 at Rotherwick to William & Frances] : Ellen C bpt.14 Mar 1830 Chislehurst
Lewis Soper in Kent Court, 3 Jul 1856; sentence Imprisonment : from Criminal Registers from Ancestry.com (where crime available) : [?a Private Lewis Soper, rifle brigade injured at Sabastopol Sep 1855]
F L Soper Churchfield House, boarding establishment for young gentlemen : Melvilles 1858 Directory for Margate source [Francis in '01cen below]
Henry Soper plumber & glazier Hadlow, nr,Tunbridge : Melvilles 1858 Directory Kent Villages : [see '61cen]
John Soper carpenter, 55 Kings St, Margate : Melvilles 1858 Directory source : [John m.Susanna bef.1841]
John Soper of 67 Trinity St, Margate : Bear's Postal Directory for Margate 1858 source: [see '41cen John 30-34 carpenter]
Thomas Soper wheelwright of East Malling, nr,Maidstone : Melvilles 1858 Directory Kent Villages
Thomas Soper cooper of Offham, Malling, nr,Maidstone : Melvilles 1858 Directory Kent Villages [& in 1851 directory]
William Soper East Crescent in large list of gentry, Margate, Thanet : Melvilles 1858 Directory of Kent Kent Villages [& in 1851 directory]
James Soper (1859-?), b.Sheerness, Kent, 10 Jan 1859, nr111105, Admiralty's Registers of Seamen's Services nationalarchives.gov.uk ADM 188/137 [see William/Charlotte '61cen below]
Emily Gertrude Soper (from London) m.George Harris (from Ramsgate, Kent) 28 July 1860, Baptist Chapel, North Adelaide, Australia. Emily was the third daughter of W Soper, London, a city missionary : source : [William Soper, schoolmaster, Margate, Kent, dau Emily 2 in '41cen] : [Emily remarried R C Archer in Canada 1880, see biog] : Emily Gertrude Soper b.Oct>Dec 1838 Thanet, Kent
Soper got third prize in writing, at Tonbridge House Academy, Shaldon, 'Trewman's Exeter Flying Post', 19 Jun 1861, from newspapers.bl.uk : [only Soper in Tunbridge Wells; Henry Lewis Soper 15 with father Henry a house builder see '61cen]
Kent 1861 census 7 Apr: 56 names in 20 households, a selection below
Charles Soper (c1815-?) living at 4 Knolls Terrace, Deptford St Paul '61cen. 46, a sawyer sharpener b.Sheerness, Kent; wife Lydia Soper abt 1815 b.Gillingham, Kent & 6 children Charles T Soper 24 electric telegraph club; George H Soper 18 porter, parcel delivery company, both b.Sheerness, Kent; William R Soper 15 a printer labourer; Henry E Soper 13 vender of newspaper; Emma Soper 11; Robert Soper 9, both scholars; Frederick Soper 5 all b.Deptford, Kent : [Charles m.Lydia Taylor, Minster 14 Aug 1836]
Charlotte Soper 60, a widow of naval officer at 1 East Villa, Chatham '61cen, b.St Margarets, Kent : unmarried children Charlotte M Soper 40 : Margaret J Soper 36 : Maria Soper 32 & Elizabeth Soper 30 all b.Chatham, Kent : assume Lieut Richard a naval officer, commanding gunboat 1813
Ellen Soaper 5 b.Chiselhurst at The Lime Kiln, Chiselhurst '61cen, with grandparents William Blundell 72 a lime merchant, wife Charlotte Blundell 64 & 4 children Ann Blundell 35, Caroline 23 unmarried dress makers : Charles 21 & James 18 both unm bricklayers labourers, all b. Chiselhurst, Kent : ['61cen presume parents William/Ellen below]
Francis L Soper (c1819-?) living at Churchfield Classical & Commercial Boarding School, Margate St John the Baptist '61cen, age 42 a schoolmaster b.London : wife Mary Ann Soper 30 b.Oxford : 2 children Mary Jane Soper 3 & Arthur L Soper 1 both b.Margate, Kent, also 2 teachers, 4 servants & 27 boys 9-16, mostly b.London : another child 1862 : [see biog]
Henry Soper (c1819-1890) 42 living at Jiweh? Place, Tunbridge Wells '61cen, , a married plumber & house decorater, employing 18 & son Henry Lewis Soper 16 both b.Hadlow, Kt & unm serv Jane Weeks 20 b.Dallington, Sx : [Henry m.Ann Saxby 1844]
James Soper (c1815-?) a policeman age 46 at 43 Dacre? Street, Lee St Margaret, Kent. b.Farnham, Sy & wife Anne Soper 21 a dressmaker, both b.Farnham, Surrey ancestry.com [appears Ann may be dau not wife, see '51cen] : [assume PC Soper 1854, see police notes] : [neither vis '71cen]
John Soper 52, carpenter employing 1 man & 2 apprentices at 15 Kings St, Margate '61cen; b.Deal, Kt & wife Susanna Soper 57 b.Margate, Kent : [in 1851 & 1858 directory, (father? William 64 at Kings St '51cen)]
Thomas Soper 70 wheelwright at Offham St, Offham '61cen, b.Chitten Leigh, Sussex : Margaret Soper 70 b.Cuxton, Kent : [a wheelwright age 50 '41] : [?a Margaret d.Jan>Mar 1864 age 70 : a Thomas d.Jan>Mar 1873 age 85 both Malling]
Thomas Soper/Loper 60unm waterman at Barrells Yard, Minster, Isle of Sheppey '61cen, b.Sheerness : [a Thomas 66 d.Jul>Sep 1867, Sheppey] : [d.1867 see sailing Sopers]
William Soper 74 retired builder 2 East Crescent, Margate '61cen; b.St Giles, Dev; wife Elizabeth Soper 61 b.Southwark, Surrey & niece Harriet Soper 35unm b.Broadwood, Dev, also niece Sarah Dakin 23unm b.Walworth, Sy : [John m.Elizabeth Maria Drinkwater 1819 Fleet St, Lon]
William Soper (c1813-?) at East Lane, Minster, Sheppey '61cen; 48, labourer, dock board b.Dretorting, Devon : wife Charlotte Soper 44 b.Dawlish, Devon : Charlotte Soper 17 : Mary Ann Soper 15 : William Soper 14 a labourer, dock board : Sarah J Soper 8, scholar all b.Chudleigh, Devon : James Soper 3 scholars b.Sheerness, Kent [seems only just arrived in Kent shipyards from Devon] : [still on docks 71cen; assume m.Charlotte 1842, Newton Abbott] : [James in Navy : see James's dau Edith '91cen] : [a Mary Ann b.1826 Kent : m.Australia 1856]
William Soaper 40, head, bricklayer's labourer, at 18 Mill Place, Chiselhurst '61cen, b.Odiham, Hants : wife Ellen Soaper 31 a laundress : William Soaper 3, Charlotte Soaper 1 all b.Chislehurst : [see family 1854] : ['61cen Ellen 5 b.Chiselhurts with grandparents at Chiselhurst above]
William Soper (c1831-?), job 'police' 30 at Elon Cottage, Down, Kent (Bromley district) '61cen, with wife Elizabeth Soper 29 : dau Blanch K Soper 4 all b.Dev, also Mary Leverton 60, a widowed laundress b.Dev [assume m-in-l] ancestry.com : [William m.Elizabeth Liverton 1852]
born Kent '61cen but in other counties
William Soper 61 cordwainer at Charles Place, Clewer, Berks; b.Sherness, Kent: wife Ann Soper 67 b.Weston on the Green, Oxon : '61cen : ['71cen both in Oxon Workhouse]
Pvt Soper of Tunbridge Wells Rifles won 2 guineas at Rifle Contest of Volunteers, Margate; in 'Standard' 13 Sep 1862, from news.bl.uk; scan : ['61cen only Henry 44 at Tunbridge Wells plumerdecorater]
Mrs F L Soper, of Churchfield House, Margate had a dau, 3 Jan 1862, from The Times 6 Jan : 48/211p : [dau Florence b.Jan>Mar] : [see Francis L Soper, schoolmaster in '61cen] : [Francis Lesiter Soper biog]
Catherine Anne Soper m.Oct>Dec 1862 Lewisham district to either William Henry Hill or Charles Sandford : [Catherine Ann Soper b.Jan>Mar 1839, Sheppey District to Charles Thomas & Lydia Ann who m.1836]
Henry Soper m.Laura Dinah Ann Markham Jul>Sep 1864, Camberwell, Lon (bmd) ; Henry b.Oct>Dec 1839, Brighton, Sx to Henry & Frances, see '41cen : [their m.to early for bmd]
William Robert Soper m.Mary Ann (perhaps m.Apr>Jun 1865, Lewisham, Lon, but spouces as Jane Norwood or Lane Worwood) : William Robert Soper b.Oct>Dec 1844 Deptford (Greenwich, Lon bmd dist) to Charles m.Lydia Taylor 1836 ; children below b.Deptford, (Greenwich RD)
John Soaper, I live at 4 Lamb Lane, Greenwich, on Sat eve 16 July, PC Alvin gave me 2 [marked] half-crowns & told me to go to the Eight Bells, Greenwich to get a pint of the best pale brandy & to give these coins, which I did. The prisoner served me. I got back 1s 8d change. This is 1 of the half-crowns given to me by the policeman. I know it by the mark there : Barman 8m prison for theft of coins. Old Bailey 14 Aug 1865 : ['61cen, no Soper in Greenwich : '71cen 3 b.Greenwich : Eleanor 55 (with sister Margaret 49 b.Sy) & Matilda 21 with parents Henry/Matilda engine tender ('61cen Eleanor b.Greenwich 45 dau of James in Surrey)]
Ann Soper d.4 Jun 1867 age 50 at Tunbridge Wells, wife of Henry Soper, 'Morning Post' (pub.Lon 7 Jun), from newspapers.bl.uk : [Ann d.Jan>Mar 1864, age 50 : Henry (c1817-1890) d.Apr>Jun 1890, age 73, both Tonbridge] : Henry & Ann Saxby m.1844
Henry Soper & Laura Ann Dina Soper b.13 Feb 1867 (bapt 30 May) to Charles Soper St James, Hatcham & Frances Soper bapt 5 Aug 1869 St Paul, Deptford : ['81cen family at Deptford]
George Henry Soper (1868-?), b.Deptford, Kent, 15 Nov 1868, nr130174, Admiralty's Registers of Seamen's Services nationalarchives.gov.uk ADM 188/175 : [George Henry Walden Soaper bapt.20 Dec 1868, Deptford to George Henry/Matilda Maria (ne Walden) they m.Deptford 2 Feb 1868, igi]
John Henry Soper m.Hannah Dandridge, 1868 in Woolwich, Kt; age abt 26 & 19; 12 children
Catherine Soper m.Johann Wilhelm Ebart of Berlin 16 Jun 1870, at Holy Trinity Church, Tunbridge Wells; youngest daughter of Henry Soper of Tunbridge Wells, 'Morning Post' (pub.Lon) 22 Jun, from newspapers.bl.uk : [Catherine b.1851 Hadlow to Henry & Ann Saxby who m.1844]
Charlotte Soper d.26 Oct 1870, widow of , Chatham, Kent; died Chatham; will proved, Principle Registry 27 Dec 1870 to William Willis of 'Sun' Hotel, Chatham, hotel keeper, Margaret Tucker Soper of Chatham, spinster & dau, the 2 executors; estate under �100; from Probate Calender, scan : [Charlotte (c1791-1870) d.Oct>Dec, Medway dist, age 79] : [Richard & Charlotte '41cen]
Kent 1871 census
Alfred Soper (c1855-?) apprentice to draper 16, b.Southampton, Hants; at 2-4 Brunswick Place, Havelock St, Forest Hill, Lewisham; with Richard Young 29 general draper b.Andover wife & 5 children 6-2m : also 7 drapers assistants, 2 other apprentices, governess & 2 ass, 2 nurses, cook, laundress, boot maker & gen serv, all unm scan : [not vis '61/'81cen/bmd]
Charlotte M Soper (c1817-?) 54 at 2 East Villa [at nr1 10y earlier], Chatham; & sisters Margaret T Soper 50, Maria Soper 46, Elizabeth Soper 42 all unm annuitant b.Chatham : [assume Lieut Richard a naval officer, commanding gunboat 1813]
David Soper 48unm cement labourer at High St, Longford House, Cliffe; b.Winchester; 1 of 2 lodgers with Clara Ann Crabb widow 39, dau 15 & 13, uncle Thomas Cumington widower, 61 out of work carpenter scan : [David a soldier, stole a butcher's cart 1852 biog]
Edward Soper (c1854-?) gunner royal artillery patient 17, b.Hammersmith, M.sx; at The Herbert Hospital, Shooter's Hill, Kidbrooke, Kent; page of 25unm men 17-30, approx 500 patients scan [seems Edwin's become Edward : Edwin Charles b.1855 parents John & Susan family]
Ellen Soper 15 scholar, inmate at Royal Sea Bathing Infirmary, Westbrook, Margate (within the borough), Margate; b.?, with 17 other inmates 6-15 : scan : [perhaps parents William & Ellen & family at Chislehurst below]
Florence Soper (c1862-?) 9, at Broughton Villa, Longton Grove, Upper Sydenham, Lewisham; b., Monmouthshire : grandau with Mary Levick 64 annuitant b.Bolston?, Staffs, daus Mary Lovick 42unm, b.Wolverhampton & Emily Lovick 24unm both schoolmistress b.Aberystwich?. Mon; also housemaid 24 & cook 19scan : [father Dr Isabell Soper ; m.1882 Bramwell Booth, Salvation Army leader]
Henry Soper (c1820-?) 51 decorator (emlp 15 men) at Jierah House. 28 Church Rd, Tonbridge; Henry L Soper 26 m, a wholesale tea dealer [wife Jane & sons 2 & 3m in Essex biog]; Frances Soper 24unm; Alice Soper 21unm all b.Hadlow, Kt; with visitors Ellena Varce 45 widow, funds & india stock, John Jones* 33unm tutor BA b.Strauran, Scotland & serv Ann Warren 20 gen dom serv b.Hadlow : [Henry m.Ann Saxby 1844]
Henry Soper 31 railway fireman, at 2 Ebenezer Cottages, Pomeroy St, Hatcham, St Paul, Deptford, Lon; b.Brighton, Laura A Soper 30, Clara Soper 8 both b.Blackthorn, Oxon, Henry Soper 6 b.Deptford, Frances Soper 2 b.Southwark, Sy, Albert Soper 1 b.Newlun?, Sy; (below 2nd household in property; Elizabeth Ludlow 56 widowed annuitant b.Billwyn? Herts, widowed dau Elizabeth Colley & 2 grdchildren 2 & 10m) : [Henry m.Laura Dinah Ann Markham 1864]
Henry Coles Soper (c1831-?) a silk manufacturer employing 1,060 hands, London & Lancashire, 40 b.Old Artillery Ground, Lon, at The Glebe, Trafford Bank, Lee, Kent. wife Clara C Soper 25 b.Chard, S.set, Clara E Soper 3 & Henry W D Soper 2 both b.Lee : also wife's sister Annie U Drommett 20 unm b.Chard also 3 unm dom servants Elizabeth M Norris 20 b.Kingsdown, S.set, Louisa Lenshall 22 & Caroline McQueen 22 b.Bromley '71cen : [see his biog]
James Soper (c1842-?) greengrocer 29, b.Farnham, Surrey; at 4 Cold Bath Place, Greenwich, St Alphage; Emma Soper 28, b.Lewisham; also William Colley brother-in-law 26 unm green grocer & general dealer b.Lewisham scan : [James b.Jan>Mar 1842, Farnham, Sy; no Surrey born James '51/'61cen; not vis '81/'91cen] : [James Soper m.Emma Colley; 13 Nov 1864 St Paul, Deptford (m.Oct>Dec Greenwich reg dist)]
John Soper (c1811-?) carpenter (empl 2 men & 1 boy) 60, b.Deal; at King St, Margate, St John; wife Harriet Soper 43, b.Devon; also boarder Robert Brown 33 unm pilot b.Deal scan : [see '41cen John 30-34 carpenter]
Jno Soper (c1853-?) a private rmli 18, b.Exmouth, Devon; at North Barracks, Lower Walmer, Walmer; (others in page of Royal Marines light infantry Privates page 'John') : scan : [??a John b.Jan>Mar 1853 St Thomas, Dev]
Joseph Soper (c1851-?) police constable 20unm, b.Ticehurst, Kent; at Police Station, Park Rd, Sittingbourne; household of police superintendant Thomas Mayne 44 wife & 5 kids & Fredrick Hoare 21 unm police constable b.Selling, Kt & 2 chelsea pensioners Phillip Rose 25 & Stewart Forbett 23 scan : ['81cen]
Louis Soaper (c1839-?) 32 Private in Rifle Brigade at 70 St James St, Dover; b.Portsmouth, wife Mary Soaper 20, Bessie Soaper 8m both b.Plymouth : [speculate parents Thomas & Susan '41cen] : [Rifle Brigade 1854-77; b.c1836 military record]
Martha Soper (c1858-?) 13 niece, b.Oxford, Oxon, at Pretoria Place, Brook, Chatham with uncle/aunt Christoper Burren 50 labourer & Pricella 60 both b.Oxford : ['61cen Martha E 4, with parents George & Sophia at Abingdon]
Mary A Soaper (c1811-?) widow 60, b.Limerick, Ireland; at 18 Engineer Rd, Woolwich, St Mary; with Mary A Hidden 28 m 'wife' b.Woolwich, Kent, [3 of the 4 households in property had wives & daughters - speculate soldiers?] : scan : [neither obvious '61cen] : [William m.Mary Granville 1827 Plymouth]
Mary J Soper (c1844-?) 27unm, b.Exeter, Dev; at Little Mill, Peckham, East; 1 of 3 servants with George Simmons 51 widowed landowner b.E.Peckham; scan : ['81cen Joseph Soper 48 ag lab b.Diptford : wife Jane Soper 46]
Mary Soper (c1856-?) 15, at 18 Llanover Rd, Plumstead, Kt; b.Holborn, M.sx; with family of uncle/aunt Ann Anderson 47 b.Aldermaston, Berks, Thomas H E 13, Caroline G L 8, Alice E 6 & Rose U 3 all b.Plumstead, Kent scan : ['81cen Richard C, sales clerk 34 b.Berks, Elizabeth 35 b.Everton, Beds children Mary 4, John 3, & Giles 1 all b.St Andrews, M.sex]
Thomas Sopher 82 widower, cooper, deaf; b.Chiddingbury, Kt lodging at Church Field, West Malling, Malling, Kt, with John Foreman 62 gardener, Ann 69, dau Jane 29 laundress, gr.son Jane 8, gr.dau Annie M 4 all b.Malling, Kt & lodger George Filmen 16 grocer scan : ['41cen Thomas Soper 50-4 wheelwright see]
William Soper (c1787-?) 84 retired builder at 67 Trinity Sq, St John, Margate; b.Dev; wife Elizabeth Soper 71 b.Southwark, also niece Sarah Dakin 33unm b.Walworth, Sy & domestic servant Sarah Westland 15 b.Margate, Kt : [a retired builder '61cen] : [a William 85 d.Maling, Kt Jan>Mar 1873 an Ellizabeth 83 d.Oc>Dec 1883 Thanet (or Elizabeth 74 d.Jul>Sep 1879 N.Aylesford)]
William Soper 54 labourer HM Dockyard at 4a Fint St, Minster, Sheerness; b.Dretorting?,Devon; wife Charlotte Soper 52 , b.Dawlish, William Soper 24 b.Chudleigh, Dev, James Soper 13 b.Sheerness, Kent & unm sister Mary Soper 50 b.Chudleigh, Dev scan : ['61cen; assume William m.Charlotte 1842, Newton Abbott]
William Soper 52 ag lab at Up Park Rd, Prickend, Chislehurst; b.Oakham?, Hants, wife Ellen W Soper 40 laundress, William Soper 13 Charlotte Soper 10 all b.Chislehurst also lodger Thomas Browning 50unm b.[Anenehampton, Glos] : [see family 1854] : [perhaps dau Ellen 15 at Margate Infirmary above]
William J Soper (c1831-?) 40 policeman at Lock's Bottom, Farnborough; b.Weedbury, Scotland; wife Elizabeth Soper 39 b.Withycombe, Devon; Rosa Soper 10, Alice Soper 6 both scholars, Earines Soper 3 & Albert Soper 19m b.Down; also border Mabel Sales 5 scholar b.Down : scan : [ see '61 at Down, Kent]
William Soaper (c1845-?) painter 26, at 37 Adolphus St, Deptford, St Paul, Kt; '71cen; b.Kent; Mary Soper 25, b.Deptford, Kent; Harry Soper 3, b.Deptford, Kent; William Soper 6m, b.Deptford, Kent : [assume with parents '51cen]
William F Soper (c1850-?) 21 Private [Royal Artillery?] at North Barracks, Lower Walmer, Walmer; b.Weyfield? : [??a John b.Jan>Mar 1853 St Thomas, Dev] : [assume John d.1913 a chief officer in coastguards]
Soper Thomas Sugden (c1840-?) a engineer, Royal Navy 31unm, b.Addington; at Ryarsh St, Private House, Park Corner, Ryarsh; with father Chatham Sugden 71 retired paymaster RN b.Brompton, Kt, dau Mary Ann Sugden 37 unm b.Gillingham & sister in law Elizabeth Heaven 61unm b.Ryarsh scan : [married at the time - Apr-Jun 1871 to (Emily Sarah Shepherd?) Epping District ; see sailing sopers]
b.Kent but in other counties
William Soper (c1800-?) a shoemaker 71 at Oxford Workhouse, Cowley Rd, St Clement, b.Sheerness, Kent; Ann Soper 68 a domestc servant b.Weston on the Green, Oxon; married, about 190 inmates under John Tebbutt 45 Master of the workhouse & his wife & 6 staff : '71cen : scan : ['41cen William 40-4 a groweneer & Ann 45-9 in Church St, Oxford] : ['51cen William & Ann Sopher both 61 in Berks] : ['61cen a cordwainer 61 in Clewer, Berks] : [no obvious connection in Kent notes] : [William d.Oct>Dec 1873, age 72, Ann d.Oct>Dec 1876, age 73 both at Headington, Oxon]
End of 1871 census
Henry Coles Soper, a shareholder of the Great Western Railway. 1868 & 1872 in Kent, 1898 & 1908 in London. Named in the 'Probate Book' (90% entrys involve a death, 5% marriage) : Henry Soper of London & Sarah Ann Soper also listed in 1868 : details for sale from findmypast.com ['71cen above]
Frances Soper m.J Jones 20 Feb 1872 at Brixton, dau of J Soper of Tunbridge Wells, 'Pall Mall Gazette' (pub.Lon) 26 Feb, from newspapers.bl.uk : [not 'J' but assume '61cen with father Henry plumber/decorater] : [Frances Soper m.John Jones Jan>Mar 1872, Lambeth, Lon (bmd)]
Charles Edward Souper & Annie [McCausland, m.1873 Lewisham (bmd)], children, Frances Oriana Souper b.6 Jun 1872 (bapt 19 Jul) & Katherine Mary Louise Souper 28 Apr 1874 (bapt 29 May) at St Mary Magdalene, Woolwich. Another child b.1875 Ireland [Katherine M L A Souper m.1874 Woolwich (bmd)] : [see Charles's father Rev Francis Abraham Souper] : [presume connection? Rev Thomas Erskine Souper married in this church 1732]
Francis Abraham Souper m.Jul>Sep 1873 Lewisham, Kt
Alice Soper m.Horace Wightman Waller of Tunbridge Wells; 14 Oct 1873 at the parish church of Tunbridge Wells; 2nd dau of H Soper of Milford House, Tunbridge Wells, 'Pall Mall Gazette' (pub.Lon 17 Oct), from newspapers.bl.uk : [Alice b.1850 Hadlow to Henry & Ann Saxby who m.1844]
Robert Soper (1850-1936) builder; m.Martha Strong Jan>Mar 1873 Greenwich, Kt, district : [same � & place Emily Strong m.Thomas Presland]
William Soper m.Mary Emma Monk Jul>Sep 1873 Sheppey, Kent
Alice Inkerman Soper b.Oct>Dec 1874 N.Aylesford, Kt : [father David a soldier biog, at Cliffe '81cen with 'Alice J Soper' age 6]
William John Soper m.Harriett Stead 15 Feb 1874 St Nicholas, Deptford, Kent. William was son of Henry a fisherman. Children; John b.1881, Joseph b.1885, Jane b.1891 Arthur b.1893, also possibly some older children : from Ann Stead source : [William a lighterman of Barking, Essex biog : & parents]
Thomas Rundle Soper m.Annie Grenham at Dover Jan>Mar 1874 : [Thomas Rundel Soper b 2 Jun 1850 at Angmering [b.Jan>Mar Worthing, Sx], to Thomas & Eliza Emma Best m.1847]
Jonas Walter Soper Mitchell of Blandford, Dorset : 5 of his school exercise books between 1875 & 1879 from Crockers Academy, Newton Abbot. www.a2a [connection? a Richard Mitchell Soper 33 b.Port Isaac '91cen]
R S Soper, an accountant in chambers at Southampton Buildings, his home, 'The Reculvers', Herne Bay. A witness in a divorse case of Mr Dennis, his partner for years (Denis denied this). For 3 years, Denis was visited in their chambers by landlady Mrs Singleton after hours. Dennis spent a vacation with Soper, when a letter from Singleton to Dennis came into his hands. Soper forgot to pass it on, later offering it to Mr Singleton for use in his divorse (claiming he was not trying to profit from this). Verdict, no adultery : from The Times, 22 Mar 1875 : 227/746n : [no accountants in '81cen] : [a Richard Coltman Soper accountant '61cen]
Winnie Soper m.Edward James Cross (1876-1913) [1899 Erith, Kent mentioned] : GeneaNet.org : from researcher Edwin Beale : [1 Winnie Soper in 01cen, at Reading, b.c1875, St Giles Reading, Berks (Minnie '81cen)] : source
William James Soper (1877-?), b.Bromley, Kent, 4 Jun 1877, nr343119, Admiralty's Registers of Seamen's Services nationalarchives.gov.uk ADM 188/519
: [William James O Soper b.4 Jun 1877 Bromley Common to William & Elizabeth Liverton 1852; d.Jan>Mar 1900 age 22 Bromley]
William Robert Soper I�m a grocer at 6 Tanner's Hill, Deptford. The prisoner [Charles Josephs 46] employed as a carpenter at my house, by a person doing repairs to upstairs kitchen. At 11am 20 Sept I locked in a box in a bedroom drawer �19, by 7pm the drawer was broken & �2. Wife Mary Ann Soper was in the sitting-room adjoining the shop all day, Ellen Grist her servant also there. �Josephs came down 12am, said he hurt himself & went for brandy, the �Royal George� landlord saw Jospehs counting �2 : �On Mon night I put �10 in the draw, by Tue the drawer again prised open, �1 taken�. I gave the prisoner to the Thames Police Station : Guilty 12 months 20 Oct 1879 : oldbaileyonline.org : [see '81cen]
Henry Frederick Soper m.Eliza Emily West Jan>Mar 1880, Eastry, Kent (bmd); b.Jan>Mar 1850, Andover, Hants to Henry ag lab & Sophia King m.1847 Amport
Henry Edwin Soper divorced Annette Soper 1880, findmypast.com. This would fit ths HE Soper of Kent...
John Soper d.4 Nov 1880, carpenter & builder of 55 King St, Margate, Isle of Thanet; died 55 King St; will Canterbury 2 Dec 1880 to Harriett Soper of 55 King St, widowed wife; estate under �100; from Probate Calender, scan : [John (c1808-1880) d.Oct>Dec, Thanet, age 72] : [see '41cen John 30-34 carpenter]
Kent 1881 census : 110 names in 32 households, a selection below : goto full list
Charles Soper (c1813-?) 68 sawyer b.Sheerness at 4 Knotts Terrace, St Paul, Deptford Lydia Ann Soper 68 b.Gillingham, Charles T Soper 44 an unemployed clerk b.Sheerness, Frederick James Soper 25 painter b.Deptford : [Charles m.Lydia Taylor, Minster 14 Aug 1836] : [sons William 36, Henry 34 & Robert 30, all heads below]
Charlotte Margaret Soper (c1817-1884) 64 at 252 New Rd, Chatham with sisters Margaret Tucker Soper (c1821-1892) 60, Maria Soper (1825-1888) 56, Elizabeth Soper 50, no occupations, all b.Chatham, also lodger Thomas Browning 60um carpenter; b.Minchinhampton,Glos : [ages given were optimistic Charlotte death reg Medway Jul>Sept 1884, age 71 bmd : Maria Sep>Dec 1888 age 66, Margaret Jul>Sep 1892 age 76] : [connection to Walter Tucker Soper m.1884 Faversham district] : [parents Richard & Charlotte '41cen]
Charles Soper (c1855-?) age 15, b.London, 'Boy Under Training', from Ships in Port 1881 census. Vessel "Arethusa" at Swanscombe , Kent : angelfire.com
David Soper 58 a cement labourer at 17 Reed St, Cliffe; b.Winchester, Hants, wife Clara Ann Soper 48 b.Brentwood, Essex & dau Alice J Soper 6 scholar b.Cliffe, Kent : [David a soldier, stole a butcher's cart 1852 biog] : [at Cliffe '91]
Emma Soper (c1854-?) b.Deptford, an unmarried cook 27 at 40 Blessington Rd, Lee, Kent, 1 of 3 servants in household of 'Edouard' Chrestien 47 an East India Merchant, wife & 4 children [perhaps father Charles 68 above] : [see family 1854]
Ellen Soper (c1830-?) 51 a widow at Park Rd, Chislehurst, with children Charlotte Soper 21u : Emily Soper 19u : (all 3 laundresses) Edward Soper 9) all b.Chislehurst, with lodger Thomas BROWNING (60u) a Carpenter b.Minchinhampton,Glos [see William m.Ellen Caroline Blundell 1854] : ['91cen]
Ellen Soper niece 24u, Fanny Soper niece 16u both dressmakers, Theodore Soper nephew 4 in her aunt's Chislehurst�household Anne Blundell 54, all b.Chislehurst : [an Ellen Caroline Soper (1855-1901) : Fanny Florence Soper (1864-?)�: a Theodore William Soper b.Apr>Jun 1877, Bromley] : [Thodore 8 immigrated to Australia 1912 with Rose 35, & Helee 6]
Frederick H Soper (c1851-?) 3 Guildford Ter, Walmer, Kent; b.Charlton, Hants, aged 30 Lance Sergt R M L I (Royal Marine Light Infantry) '81cen [Gilford Rd leads to Walmer Castle; (Oct 1878 a 700ft wide tornado at Walmer)] RMLI site shows his regiment all at at Walmer & Chatham Barracks, Kent in '81cen & Aug 1882 reg posted to Egypt
George Soper 48 pedlar at Stone St, Bird in Hand, Cranbrook, Kent '81cen; b.Hurstmonceaux, Sx & wife Ann 37 b.Guilford, Surrey 2 of 3 pedlars/travellers lodging in beerhouse of Benjimin 67 & wife Jane Midmore 77: [not vis '71cen a George/Ann m.not vis bmd; not vis '91/'01cen]
Harriett Soper widow 55 lodging house keeper at St John Baptist,�55 King St, Margate, Kent; b.Broadwood, Dev (only resident) : [John m.Harriett Soper 1867, Thanet (see '41cen John 30-34 carpenter)]
Henry Soper (c1820-?) 61 at Milford House, Tonbridge, house decorator (employing 16) b.Hadlow : Louisa Soper 30 b.Wingham : Clara M Soper 5, Horace E Soper 4, both b.Tunbridge Wells : with Belinda Avis a domestic servant 20 b. Rotherfield, Sx : [Henry m.Ann Saxby 1844] : [died 1890? : wife '91 census]
Henry Soper (c1847-?) 34 a greengrocer at 2 Tanner Hill, [William 36 at nr6] St Paul, Deptford '81cen, b.Deptford, Evelyn B Soper 7, Henrietta Soper 5 both b.Croydon Sy, Percival C Soper 3 b. Anerley, Sy, living with Emma Pritchard 20u b Hampstead, M.sex. a shop ass/dom serv : [father Charles 68 above] : [Henry Edwin m.Annetta Whitam, 1872 ]
Henry Soper (c1840-?) 41 b.Brighton, an engine driver at�6 Frederick St, St Paul, Deptford, Kt, wife Laura Soper [Laura Ann Dina Soper] 40 b.Blackthorn, Oxford, Frances Soper 12 b.Bermondsey, Sy : Albert Soper 11 : William Soper 7 : Georgina Soper 4 : Alice Soper 2 : Edwin Soper 1 : Florrie Soper 4m all b.New Cross, Sy: [Henry m.Laura Dinah Ann Markham 1864]
John Souper (c1838-?) b.Aberdeen, Scotland, a gen labourer at 5 Spencers Cottages, Erith Marshes, Kent, wife Caroline Souper 43 housekeeper, James Souper a gen lab & Elizabeth Souper no occupation, all b.London : '81cen
John Soper (c1810-?) age 71, b.Sheeress, Kent, a master tailor, emp 12 : Sarah Soper 69 b.Pluckley, Kent at East Hill Tailor's Shop, Wandsworth [perhaps in '41cen? at The Parade, St John the Baptist, Margate, Kent John a carpenter & Susanna, both 30-40 b.Kent]
Mary Ann 75 laundress widow; b.Ireland at Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; m-in-law with Sergt.Henry Hidden 41 b.Berks, wife Mary Ann Hidden 40 & sons 9, 7 & 1 all b.Woolwich, Kent : [Mary Ann Soper had marriage to Henry Hidden registered twice, once Oct>Dec 1870 & again July>Aug 1872, Woolwich] : [William m.Mary Granville 1827 Plymouth]
Robert Soper (c1851-?) painter 30 at 1 Cranbrook St, Deptford : Martha Soper 27 b.Bighton, Sx : Florence Soper 7 : Percy C Soper 5 : Robert E Soper 3 : Ethel E Soper 6m all b.Deptford : [Robert m.Martha Strong 1873] : [?a Robert 30 painter of Deptford, Kt '81cen]
Samuel Soper (c1846-?) 35 b.Deptford, at Cavalry Barracks, Walmer; wife Caroline 40 b.Salcombe, Dev : [a Caroline Soper 63 sailed to S.Africa 1902]
W J Soper (c1829-?) labourer 52 at 14 Skelliter Cotts, Southlands Rd, Bromley b.Wednesbury, Dev : wife Elizabeth Soper 49 b.Withycombe, Dev : Ernest Soper 13 : Albert Soper 11 both scholars b.Down, Kent : Frank Soper 6 Bromley : William Soper 3 Bromley Common : [ see family '61 at Down, Kent]
William R Soper house decorator 36 at 2 Tanner Hill, [Henry 34 grocer at nr2] St Paul, Deptford; Mary A Soper 35; Harry Soper 13; William J Soper10; Charles Soper 8; Elenor Soper 2; Jessie Soper 4m all b.Deptford, Kent
William Soper (c1847-?) a painter/laborer 34 b.Chudleigh, Dev; wife Mary E Soper 33 : Elizabeth E Soper5 : Charlotte Soper 4 : William J Soper 3 : James Geo Soper 1, at Sheerness : [see 1847]
William Soper (c1850-?) 31 civil engineer at 60 Fawcett Rd, Deptford, Kt; b.Plymouth, Dev : Johanna Soper 30 b.Devonport, Dev : Heneretta Soper 9 : William Soper 8 : Charles Soper 7 : Ernest Soper 9m all b.Plymouth, Dev : [William H m.Johanna bef.1871, sailing sopers]
Louie Annie Soper b.Jan>Mar 1882 & m.Oct>Dec 1909 Greenwich, London : in '91cen Greenwich, with family b.Deptford
William Robert Soper chandler of 6 Tanner's Hill, Deptford, Kent, bankruptcy. Ist meeting of creditors 28 May 1883 (London Gazette 11 May) : ['81cen a decorator 36 Walter Tucker Soper m.Jan>Mar 1884 (to either Leanora Jane B Baxter or Louisa Smeed), Faversham, Kent (bmd)
: [connection to Margaret Tucker Soper 60 at Chatham '81cen; see '41cen]
Messrs Soper & Jones, painters & decorators of Tunbridge Wells the trustees of Beane's Charity; Copy deeds & agreements relating to the sale of parts of Shatters Wood, Lipscombs Farm 1884-8 ref 7144/4/11 : from exploringsurreyspast : [a Henry decorator 51 at Tonbridge '71cen living with John Jones 33 : d.1890 age 73 below]
Ada Soper (1885-?) m.Hubert William Fisher (1883-1956) of Sibertswold, Kent : Marsh/Fisher familiy tree : [an Ada Emily Soper b.Oct>Dec 1884 age 6 in '91cen b.Brighton at Horsham Sx parents James/Sarah]
Jane Soper from Kent, Eng, applied for for naturalisation in the State of Delaware, USA, 1886 Declarations of Intention (First Papers) : 1217.66 Vol. 1, page 93 : A possible mistake as a Harvey Soper is on the same page from Kent, Canada and 4 other Sopers also applied from Kent, Canada (1878, '82, '84 & 90) : source
Joseph Ernest Soper m.Charlotte Eliza Rose Jul>Sep 1887 Lewisham, Kt; Joseph b.5 Aug 1863 Brighton [b.Jul>Sep] to Joseph m.Frances Maria Dawes who m.1860
Robert Soper a brick manufacturer of Bexley, Kt, had his stable broken into & a �15 gelding stolen by James Smith (32) a hawker. The evening of 24 Dec he tried to sell it to a horse slaughter in Borough, but he refused the offered 30s, was followed & arrested. Committed for trial at Southwark : from The Times 4 Jan 1888 323/746n : [?a Robert 30 painter of Deptford, Kt '81cen]
Messrs Soper & Jones, painter & decorators of Tunbridge Wells, bought 6a land known as part of Lipscombs Farm, bounded by Auckland Rd, Albion Gdns & land intended as a recreation ground. Sale from trustees of Beane's Charity & Frederick James Castle, gent of Southborough, Kent. Plan showing building plots �Dorking Rd� a new road : Ref 7144/4/12 ; 1888 exploringsurreyspast : [a Henry decorator 51 at Tonbridge '71cen living with John Jones 33 : d.1890 age 73 below]
Walter James Scoble Soper (1889-?) a Lieutenant Commander b.7 Sept 1889 [reg Oct>Dec at Dartford, Kent (bmd)] : [Started officer career?] 12 Oct 1917 : RN Officer's Service Records ADM 196/165; from National Archives : [see seaman]
William Soper m.Jane Elizabeth Driscoll 12 Aug 1889, spinster Bromley, Kt, withnesses John & Emily Mears [m.Jul>Sep] : William Charles Soper b.Jan>Mar 1858 Chiselhurst (Bromley RD) (Jane b.c1857 to John (a sawyer & Susannah all b.Folkstone)
W Soper of Herne Hill won 1st prize for his gloxinias, Crystal Palace Flower Show : from The Times 12 May 1890 349/746n
Henry Soper (c1817-1890) died, aged 73, at Milford House, Mount Pleasant Rd, Tunbridge Wells, 28 June 1890 : from The Times 2 Jul : & 'Morning Post' 3 Jul [presume b.1817] : [Henry m.Ann Saxby 1844]
Henry Soper a Wesleyan Minister, transfered from Newark, Notts to Ramsgate, Kent 1885 re-assigned to Stockton 1891 : biog
Kent 1891 census : 54 names, a selection below
Albert George Soper (c1864-?), 27 b.Winchester, Hants at 8-11, Lees Hotel, Clifton Gardens, Folkestone, a servant in household of with Francis Brouncker army 'rank not known' b.Ireland, wife 24 b.Mancester & ladies maid domestic 34 b.Putney, Lon; (& hotel staff - large enough for a book-keeper) (3 or 4 other guest families som with own servants) scan : [Albert b.Oct>Dec 1865 Winchester : with mother Emma, Hants '71cen] : m.Frances Frost Apr>Jun 1893, Thetford, Norfolk
Albert E Soper 16 boy infantryman at Cheriton, Kent; 'Lieut Col Chas E Partridge Build of P R W Kent R & T, Shornecliffe Camp'; b.Carnarvon, Carmarthenshire (rest of page all older privates) (mistranscribed as Albert C') : scan : [father Charles Private 73rd Foot see]
Alfred W Soper (c1857-?) 34unm* boarder boiler maker (employee) at 25 Goodwin Terrace, Gillingham, New Brompton, Kt; b.Stoke, Dev boarding with Charles Jenner 58 retired rigger b.Sy, wife 57 b.Scot, son 19 & dau 16 : scan : [*if age 24 not 34 then b.1866 to John Theophilus Soper m.Elizabeth Launder 1858 Stoke Damerel, Dev, the family were boilermakers] : [Alfred William m.Louis Marion Harterton 1892, Medway]
Anna M S Soper (c1815-?) 76unm living on own means at 2 St Annes Rd, Faversham, Kent; b.Ugborough, Dev with William D Baginton 30unm curate of Faversham, sister Annie E 33unm both b.Northam, Dev & gen serv Mary A Raybould 18 b.Hants : scan : [parents George & Susanna b.bef.1813 Dev]
Annie Soaper 25m housemaid at 39 Park Rd, Beckenham, Kent; b.Torquay, Dev dom servant with Daisy Phillips 6 & Wilfred Phillips 8 scholars both b.Birmingham (no house head), also a governess 24unm b.Lon, & cook 19 b.Wales; scan : [recently m (not vis in Kent); not obvious '01/'11cen]
Bertha P Soper (c1874-?) 17 b.Itford, Essex a pupil at at Girls Collegiate School, Sandgate Rd, Folkestone, school of Gertrude A Badham widow, school mistress 55 b.Irl; dau 31 & 50 female pupils 18-10, from many counties & countries, presume military or government children?, 4 governesses 27-37, housekeeper 53 & 7 female serv, all unm scan: [Bertha Philpott Soper b.1874 [apr>jun] Romford, Essex] : [see brother John Philpott Henry Soper see Legal Sopers]
Charles E Soper (c1878-?) 13 scholar at Godwyne Hurst, Leybourne Terrace, Charlton, Dover, Kt; b.Camden Town, Lon; 1 of 9 boarding m&f scholars 9-16 with John S Wise 39 schoolmaster b.Oxon, wife 39, dau 11 & 12 & son 9 & 2 male teachers 26 & 21; scan : [b.not vis bmd; not vis '01/'11cen]
David Soper (c1821-?) head 69 job, cement works*; living at 12 St Helens Terrace, Cliffe, Kt; b.Winchester, Hants at Cliffe with wife Clara A Soper 58 b.Brentwood, Sussex & dau Alice J Soper 16 b.Cliffe at Hoo, Kent : scan (neighbors cement labourers & cement millers) : [*cooking Thames silt/clay from pits with chalk from downs] : [at Cliffe '81cen & '01cen an army pensioner] : [David a soldier, stole a butcher's cart 1852 biog] : [at Cliffe '81cen & '01cen an army pensioner]
Edith Soper, from the Isle of Sheppey, great aunt to researcher, Robin Singer : source
Ellen Soper (c1831-?) head 61 at Chiselhurst, Kent with children William Soper 35, Jane Soper 34, Edward Soper 20, Frederick Soper 6 & Ellen Soper 1, also boarder Thomas Browning 71 all b.Chiselhurst scan : [see family 1854] ..... Next door...
Ellen Soper (c1861-?) 30 b.Chiselhurst, niece at Chiselhurst household of aunt Annie Blundell 44 also nephews Theodore Soper 14, all b.Chiselhurst & Hugh Soper 6 b.New Cross scan [see William m.Ellen Caroline Blundell 1854] : ['81cen] : [a Theodore b.1903, Chiselhurst in Australian Army WW1, below]
Ellen 24 housemaid at Manor Gate, Dartford Heath, Wilmington, Dartford, Kent '91cen; b.South Stoneham, Hants in home of retired solicitor Charles Gibson 67, wife & 5 children 11-23 & George & Penny Pike, coachman 41 & cook 32; scan : [Ellen b.1866, South Stoneham to Charles & Elizabeth Vane 1850]
Ernest W Soper (c1868-?) v.serv 25unm footman dom servant� at Imperial Hotel, Park Hill Rd, Tormoham, Dev; b.Downe, Kt : '91cen : [b.Oct>Dec 1867 Down to William m.Elizabeth Liverton m.,1852]]
George Soper 48 tailor in 4 rooms at 2 Park Cottages, Florence Row, (St Johns), Margate, Thanet, Kent '91cen; b.Lon; Caroline Soper 47 b.Leek, Staffs; scan : [George Soper m.Caroline Meaking 1864, Bethnal Green, Lon]
Harriet Soper 65 widow living on own means at 55 King St, Thanet, Margate, Kt; b.Broadwood, Dev also niece Mary Dridge 11 b.Broadwater, Dev : scan : [John m.Harriett Soper 1867 (see '41cen John 30-34 carpenter)]
Henry Soper (c1832-?) 59 wesleyan minister, 19 Hardres St, Thanet, Ramsgate, Kt; (Thanet RD); b.South Brent, Dev; Elizabeth Soper 54 b.Poole, Dor; Florette Soper 21 b.Frome Salwood, S.set, & Maud Soper 13 scholar both b.Taunton, S.set, also gen dom serv Elizabeth Bushell : scan
Isabella Soper (c1832-?) 25unm visitor at Oakhurst, London Rd, Tunbridge, Hildenborough, Kent '91cen; b.Clapham Rd, Lon visiting Robert Wingate 55 surgeon b.Spilsbury, Linc; wife Bertha 54 b.Southwark, Lon, nephews William 23 surgeon & Philip 23 student & 3 unm dom servants, Anne 26 & Rosina J Piggott 18 both b.Peckham & Rosina Green 25 b.Cambs; scan : [Isabel m.Wm Wingate 4y later] : [parents Dr William m.Auguste Schlesinger 1862 see medical Sopers]
John Soaper 60 (c1831-?) widower labourer (employee) {3 rooms} at Johnsons Cottages, Belvedere, Erith, Kent, (Dartford RD) & son James Soaper 27 labourer both b.Aberdeen, Scotland; sharing property (or 3 rooms?) with family of 7 of James Kory 46 labourer b.Berks : scan : [John m.Caroline bef.1850]
Louisa Soper 40 b.Wingham, a household head, at 53 Mount Pleasant Rd, Tonbridge with Clara M Soper 15, Horace E Soper 14, both scholars; b.Tunbridge Wells; also boarder Ernest Sanderson 24 house surveyor b.Canterbury, Kt & gen serv Mary Pratt 23 b.Pembury, Kt : [Henry 1st m.Ann Saxby 1844] : [a Henry died 1890]
Margret L Soper (c1819-?) head 72 on her means; 'iv' 4 rooms or a remark on house 252 New Rd, Chatham, Gillingham; b.Chatham; with servant Florance R Romary 16 b.Chatham; scan; Online Parish Clerk [Margaret Tucker Soper died Jul>Sep 1892 age 76] : [with 3 sisters '81cen] : [parents Richard & Charlotte '41cen]
Mary E Soper 42 head, self employed, laundress at 12 Sheppey St, Minster, Sheppey, Elizabeth E Soper 15 nurse maid, Charlotte E Soper 14, William J Soper 13 cabin boy, James G Soper 11, Frederic H Soper 4 all b.Sheerness, Edith Soper 1 b.'Tower St Waterloo RD, Lon : scan : [William & Mary Emma Monk m.1873]
Owen Soper 24unm railway coach builder lodging at 2 Stanley Villas, Christ Church Road, Ashford, Kt, '91cen b.Chippenham, Wilts, lodging with Mark Salmon 35 carpenters labourer b.Ashford, wife Emma 30 b.Ely, Cambs, dau Fanny 12 b.Clerkenwell & boarder John C Beadle 17 pupil to carriage builder b.Erith, Kt scan : [James Henry Owen Soper foreman railway coachbuilder at 134 Beaver Rd, Ashford : m.1895 Maria Harriet Jenner]
Robert Soper (c1886-?) 7 a patient, imbacile at Darenth Asylum & Schools, Darenth nr Dartford (his page of imbaciles, all ' birthplace unknown'); scan : [built 1878 for Londoners, on coastal highland at Dartford, extended 1888 to hold 1,000 imbecile children & asylum for 1,500 adults] : [no London Roberts in BMD's] source
William J Soper 62 retired policeman at 15 Queen's Cottages, Plaistow, Bromley, b.Woodbury, Dev, Elizabeth 60 b.Exmouth, Dev, Frank A 16 carpenters apprentice & William O 13 both b.Bromley : scan : [William [James] Soper m.Elizabeth Liverton 1852]
William Soper 50 shipwright at Outer Wall, Seasalter, Kent; b.Portsmouth, Hants; Frances H Soper 47 b.Whitstable, Kt; also brother John Harris 37 general labourer; b.Whitstable, Kt (next address Old Neptune pub); scan
Alfred William Soper m.Louis Marion Harterton Oct>Dec 1892, Medway RD (inc Gillingham), Kent; b.Oct>Dec 1866 Devonport, Morice Town, Dev [Stoke Damerel reg dist] to John Theophilus Soper m.Elizabeth Launder 1858 Stoke Damerel, the family were boilermakers
Walter James Scoble Soper, b.Erith, Kent, 1892-1907, nr236224, Admiralty's Registers of Seamen's Services nationalarchives.gov.uk ADM 188/419 : [see seaman]
John Soper d.3 Mar 1893, of 1 John St, Avenue Rd, Lewisham, Kt; died St Thomas Hospital, Westminster Bridge Rd, Sy; probate Lon 25 Mar 1893 to Susan Maria Joseph (wife of William Joseph); estate �44 18s 10d; from Probate Calender, scan : [John (c1817-1893) d.Jan>Mar, Lambeth, Lon, age 76] : [not linked yet; not Rev John who d.1894]
William John Soper m.Caroline Hare Jul>Sep 1893; William John b.c1871 Deptford, Kt [see London 1893]
Harriet Soper d.18 Nov 1894, widow of 55 Kings St, Margate, Kent; probate London 9 Mar 1895 to John Doidge, farmer, Harriett Soper Doidge wife; estate �1,285 15s 9d; from Probate Calender, scan : [Harriett (c1825-1894) d.Oct>Dec, Thanet, age 69] : [see John '41cen]
John James Souper, nr J43867 of Belvedere, Kent : Registers of Seamen's Services 6 April 1895 : ADM 188/734 : National Archives : [He died with over half the crew, 390, when HMS Natal's internal cordite exploded without warning while at anchor in the Cromarty Firth, she capsized & sank in 5 minutes. 30 Dec 1915]
James Henry Owen Soper foreman railway coachbuilder at 134 Beaver Rd, Ashford : m.Oct>Dec 1895 Maria Harriet Jenner W.Ashford, Kt (b.1875c, Ashford '91cen a mothers help) family tree
Clara Emily Soper m.Richard Thorpe, of Homelea, Portonscalo Rd, Putney. 2 Mar 1897, at St Margarets Church, Lee, Kt. Only dau of Henry Coles Soper of Trafford Bank, Blackheath (by Rev Law rector); from 'The Times' & 'The Standard' 4 Mar; 169/211p : [Clara age 29, '81cen Clara 13 at Lee school] : [Henry Coles Soper, bapt, 22 Sep 1830, Christ Church, Spitalfields, Stepney, to Henry & Sarah Ann] : ['71cen parents Henry Coles Soper/Clara]
Margaret Soper d.3 Sep 1897, spinster of 'Glen Avon', Chiselhurst, Kent; probate London 11 Oct 1897 to Henry James Dover, gentleman; estate �16,923 2s 9d; from Probate Calender, scan [Margaret 75 d.Brighton, Kt, Jul>Sep 1897] : [sister Eleanor d.Lon '81cen]
Henry Coles Soper of Trafford Bank, the Glebe in Lee, Kent, Arthur Cooper Read of 89 Brigstock Rd, Thornton Heath, Croydon, Surrey & Miss Ann Lilian Harding of Brantwood Oak Drive, Fallowfield, Lancs executors of Jane Mary Ann Coles widow of 7 Gloucester Pl, Greenwich, Kent (d. 20 Jan 1898) (London Gazette 1 Mar)
James Pye Soper b.Kent, Eng. Emigrated to Newfoundland. Son, James Everett Soper, (c1898-1972/4) ?b.Everett, Mass; m.Susan Allen; d.Salem, Mass; New Soper Compendium p.264 : [no Soper/Pye link vis]
H E Soper was made President of The Old Skinners' Society for the year 1899 for the old boys of The Skinners' School, Royal Tunbridge Wells which was founded 13 years earlier : oldskinners.org : A biography (1865-1930)
L/Cpl G Soper (?-1899) of Pool St, Caernarfon d.11 Dec 1899 at Magersiontein, 2 months after the outbreak of the Boar War, his brother...
Edwin Harold Soper m.Elizabeth Parker (or Wakefield*) Jul>Sep 1900, Greenwich, Lon [*Parker seems correct from '01/'11cen, but Dandridge site says m.Elizabeth Wakefield] : Edwin Harold b.13 Mar 1877 [b.reg.Apr>Jun] Blackheath, Kt to John Henry m.Hannah Dandridge, 1868 in Woolwich, Kt]
Kent 1901 census : 39 residence - -
Arthur Russell Soper 21 mechanical engineer at 43 St Johns Road, Erith, Kt, '01cen, b.Reading, Berks; boarding with George Robinson 40 mechanical engineer b.Kennington, Lon & wife Mary Ann 41 b.Bath, S.set; scan : [son of William 1866 gunmaker & Ellen]
Charles Soper 30unm laundry carman at 66 Havelock Road, Bromley, Kent '01cen, b.Padworth, Berks; boarding with William E Browning 29 laundry carman b.Bromley, wife & 2 children scan : [not vis '91/'11cen]
Constance Soper 27unm domestic servant at Elmstead Lane, (South Bank), Bromley, Kent, '01cen, b.Tunbridge Wells, Kent; with William 47 managing director of public co, Islington, wife 44 & dau 13 & servants Ruth Sargeant 28unm & Elizabeth Jones 27unm scan : [certainly Soper but assume mistake as not vis bmd/'81/'91/'11cen] : ?but a Constance E Soper m.Arthur K Eicke Oct>Dec 1914, Greenwich, Lon
David Soper 79 army pensioner, grenadier guards at 12 Station Road St Helens Terrace, Cliffe at Hoo, b.Hinnalt/Winnall, Hants, wife Clara A Soper 67 b.Brentford, Essex & dau Alice I Soper 24unm b.Cliffe; scan : [David a soldier, stole a butcher's cart 1852 biog]
Edith Soper 21unm domestic nurse at 17 Brackley Road, Beckenham, Kent, '01cen, b.Reading, Berks; servant to Catherine Gosling 57 & 4 sisters 49-55, all m.NSW, Australia; neice Susan Kent 28, b.NSW nephews 3 & 3m, also housemaid 17 scan : [parents William (gunmaker) m.Ellen Clowes Hobbs 1866 Thatcham, Berks]
Ellen Soper 34unm housekeeper domestic at Daleside, Woolwich Road, Erith, Belvedere, Kent, '01cen, b.Stoneham, Hants; servant to Henry S Atkins 69 widower b.Underwriter Clerkenwell, Lon & son James 39 1862 assist sec ins co, b.Hackney, Lon; cook 22unm & housemaid 17 scan : [Ellen b.1866, South Stoneham to Charles & Elizabeth Vane 1850]
Emily K Soper 34unm help domestic at Bradbourn Farm, Seal Road, Riverhead, Kent, b.Bovey Tracey, Dev; assistant [not 'servant'] to Robert Palmer 65 farmer b.Pawlett, S.set, wife Emily 62 b.Badgsworth, S,set, sons 17, 22 & 25 all b.S.set Percy Homewood dom servant 19 b.Kt & Herbert Twynham 15 milker, cow boy b.Hants scan : [John m.Mary Jane Hellier, Dev 1850]
Frances Soper 55 widowed charwoman at Lower Island, Whitstable Urban, Kent, '01cen; with unm brother John Harris 48 gen labourer & Clara Goldsmith 15 dressmaker's apprentice all b.Whitstable scan
George Soper 58 tailor in 4 rooms at 2 Park Cottages, Margate, Kent, '01cen, b.City of Lon; Caroline Soper 57, b.Leek, scan : [George m.Caroline Meaking 1864, Bethnal Green, Lon]
James Soper 34 foreman railway coach builders at 134 Beaver Road, Ashford, Kent, '01cen, b.Chippenham, Wilts; Maria Soper 26; Owen Soper 4 both b.Ashford, Kent ; scan : [James Henry O Soper m.Maria Harriet Jenner 1895]
Jane Soper 44 married at St Peter, Kent; b.Toerestore, Kent; & grdau Ellen Soper 11, b.Sandwich, Kt; Louie Soper 8; Esther Soper 5; Jane Soper 2, b.Chislehurst, Kt with parents John Driscoll 66 sawyer & wife Susannah 64 both b.Folkestone, Kt; scan : [William m.Jane Elizabeth Driscoll 1889]
Louisa Soper 49 b.Wingham, Kent at 53 Mount Pleasant Road, Tunbridge Wells with Clara Soper 25 governess, Horace Soper 24 architects clerk both b.T.Wells & vistor [in 2 rooms?] Ernest Sanderson 34 1867 auctioneer b.Canterbury, Kt seems visitors & gen serv Elizabeth Turner 22unm b.Hadlow Down, Sx : [Henry 1st m.Ann Saxby Jan>Mar 1844]
Mary E Soper 52 widow, domestic at 3 Sheppey Street, Sheerness, Kent, '01cen; James G Soper 21 labourer; Frederick H Soper 14 factory boy dockyard all b.Sheerness, Kent; scan : [William Soper m.Mary Emma Monk 1873]
Robert Soper 29 imbecile at Darenth Asylums, Darenth, Kt, '01cen, b.-; scan : [not vis before; not in lunacy registers]
Theodore W Soper 24 chemist warehouseman at 3 Queen's Cottages, Chislehurst, Kent, '01cen, b.Chislehurst, Kt; Hugh Soper 16 errand boy port b.New Cross, Lon, with aunt Ann Blundell 77unm on own means b.Chislehurst, Kt; scan : [see William m.Ellen Caroline Blundell 1854]
Thomas H Soper 24unm engineer in "Sans Pareil" 1st Class Battleship, at Kent, b.Portsmouth, Hants; (329{93} seamen 13{12} officers, 68{1} boys, 70{8} marines {+ not on board} [Victoria-class battleship 1887-1907 a Sheerness guardship 1900-4 wiki] scan, b, c: [parents Thomas marine engineer m.Selina Pitt 1874]
William Soper (c1830-?) 71 pensioned police constable at 7 Plaistow Grove, Bromley, Kent, b.Woodbury, Dev; Elizabeth 69 b.Widecombe, Dev; scan : [William James m.Elizabeth 1852]
William W Soper 32 professional chef at 83 Wellington Hotel, Mount Ephraim, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, '01cen, b.Great Leigh, Dev, servant to Henry W Boston 42 hotel manager b.Sx, wife, 6 visitors; 3 bookeepers, linenkeeper, barmaid, 6 chambermaids, 2 chefs, kitchenmaid, kitchen porter, still room porter & maid, plateman, porter, 9 waiters, stoker, 2 pages scan : [William White Soper m.Margaret Smith Farmer at Cumberland 1904]
William Soper 30 fishmongers salesman '01cen b.Deptford, Kent; Caroline 29 b.Bexley ['Fent Bexley' ], Lon; Jessie 4; Harold 2 both b.Peckham, Lon [perhaps others?] : [William John Soper m.Caroline Hare Jul>Sep 1893]
William Soper (c1874) 27 carter on farm at 23 Portland St, Orpington, Kt; b.Longparish, Hants; Edith Soper b.East Tytherley; Clarence W Soper 5 b.Barton Stacey, Hants & boarder Edward Cole 22unm cowman on farm b.S Africa (BS) Cape Colony etc; scan : [??a William Charles m.Edith Morgan 1895 Andover]
William Soper (c1878-?) able seaman, age 23unm, on Tug "Diligent" at Sheerness, Kent, b.Portsmouth, Hants) scan
- Kathleen Georgina G Soper b.Jul>Sep 1901, Greenwich, Lon
Robert Edwin Soper (1878-1933) m.Georgina Luckett Pool (1877-1958) Apr>Jun 1901, Lewisham, Lon (bmd) : Robert Edwin Soper b.Apr>Jun 1878 Greenwich, Kent to Robert Soper & Martha Strong 1873 Greenwich
Frank Sopper (c1880-?) 2nd Liententant, at London, 21, b.Canterbury, Kent from 1901 census : assume this was;
Percy Charles Soper (1876-1939) m.Ada Smith Jul>Sep 1902, Greenwich, Lon (bmd); b.Jul>Sep 1875 Greenwich to Robert & Martha Strong who m.1873; (Ada b.1884 Kent)
William Robert Soper d.1902, age 57 husband : Mary Ann Soper d.1920, age 74 wife; Alice Ward Soper d.1945 age 72 wife; Charles Soper d.1948, age 75 mother??????? : Memorial Inscriptions Ladywell & Brockley Cemetery, Lewisham, NW Kent; source : [assume William Robert b.Oct>Dec 1844 Greenwich : '81 William Robert 36 & Mary A 35 at Deptford & : d.Apr>Jun 1902 Southwark] : [a Charles Soper m.Alice Maud Wingfield, Jan>Mar 1895 Greenwich]
Theodore William Joseph Soper Service nr; Q215142 : Born 8 Mar 1903 at Chislehurst, England [Kent] : Enlisted Marian Qld : Next of kin - Amy : Canberra record 1939-48, from Aust Archive B884 [emmigrated 1912]
Arthur Soper m.Bertha Bourner Apr>Jun 1903 at Bridge (bmd); assume b.25 Jun 1881 Sherfield, Hants; [b.Jul>Sep Basingstoke] to James & Emma Draper m.1855
J Compton Soper a retailer of Peckham took a stall at exposing shoes adulterated with cardbord ext at the Shoe & Leather Fair, Islington. He was trying to get adoption of a standard hall-mark : from The Times Newspaper, 3 Nov 1903 - : - Soper v Haywood Clarke, a libel case (the 2nd), J C Soper, a bootseller of Peck
ham, said an article in Footwear urged dealers to boycott him. Their MD was 'convined that Soper was a humbug' & would not support his hare-brained scheme, Jury gave Soper �3000 damages (he had only asked for �2000) : from The Times, 12 Jun 1907 663-5/746n 593/746n ['61cen a John Soper apprentice boot closer at Exeter St Kerrian, b.Changford, Devon] : ['01cen a boot shopkeeper at Battersea 58] : [John Compton Soper m.Mary Compton Barnes 1889 Bath, S.set (London notes)]
Ernest William Liverton Soper m.Marie Louisa St�nly 42 of 30 Cumberland Sy, Pimlico, 4 Jun 1904 at St George, Hanover Sq, Westminster; Ernest of 74 Grooverr St; fathers William James Soper police pensioner & Frederick Louis St�ply farmer; witnesses W J Soper, G J Bailey & C Maisey scan; [m.Apr>Jun Hanover Sq; m.'Stahl'] : [b.3 Oct 1867 Down, Kent [b.Oct>Dec 1867 Bromley] to William m.Elizabeth Liverton 1852]
Nellie Rose Soper (1905-?) b.8 Feb 1905, Kent : in private tree Mar'08, in Ancestry.com from 'jabopp'
: [Nellie Rose Soper b.Apr>Jun 1905 both Bromley district : presume marents Theodore William Soper (b.1877 Bromley) m.Rose Clarke at Yeovil 1901] : [a Rose to Australia 1912]
Frederick James Soper m.Ada Catherine Steer Oct>Dec 1906 Sheppey, Kt (& Ada b.Jul>Sep 1879 Mile End); b.Apr>Jun 1878 Totnes; b.1 Apr 1879 Stoke Gabriel, Dev [or b.8th below] nr.180104, Admiralty: Registers of Seamen's Services (from Nat Archives); to James m.Sarah Elizabeth Adams 1875, Lon
H Soper & G Stevenson, motor agents & engineers of Tunbridge Wells, Kent, trading as Godfrey Stevenson. Partnership dissolved : from The Times, 21 Aug 1907 667/746n : [a Henry Soper of T.Wells d.1890]
Henry Coles Soper d.19 Jan 1908 of Trafford Bank the Glebe, Lee, Kent; probate London 6 May 1908 to Henry William Dommett Soper, chartered accountant, Arthur Walrond Soper, surgeon; estate �7,748 7s 9d; from Probate Calender, scan : [Henry Coles Soper d Jan>Mar Lewisham, age 77] : [see biog]
Elsie Evelyn Soper b.Jul>Sep 1909 at Lewisham &? a Elsie E Soper m.Charles W J Beddows/Beddous Apr>Jun 1933 at Lewisham (bmd)
H Soper esq., Edenbridge, Kent. Edenbridge & District Farmers' Club : Live Stock Journal pub.1909 Google Books : [Harold m.Adelaide M Kent 1911]
Mr Soper Whitburn attended a bachelors party of Major Laycock at Wisedon Hall : Court Circular : from Guardian paper, 11 Sept 1910 : [a Henry of Tunbridge Wells, motor agent 1914]
William Charles Soper (1891-) nr.1005135; attested Royal Artillery 20 Aug 1910 at Weymouth; age 19y 3m; labourer b.1891 Fordington, Dorchester, Dor; India 1911-16.17; Mesop 1916-17-18; British War & Victory Medals; Mobilised 10 Apr 1921-3 Jun 1921; m.Dorothy Ellen Mayfoot, 26 Aug 1920 at Whitcombe; Former regimental nr.62197 31 Aug (23?); Discharged Woolwich 29 Aug 1922 TofE [term of engagement] 1st period, para 32(a) ARR, serial B2079/7412 & B2067/6388, character exemplary; address 19 King St, Fordington, Dor scan
James G Soper m.Edith Singer Oct>Dec 1910 Sheppey dist : (a James George Soper b.6 Jan 1880 Minster, Sheerness (b.Jan>Mar Sheppey reg dist) to William m.Mary Emma Monk who m.1873)
Harold Soper m.Adelaide M Kent Jan>Mar 1911 at Sevenoaks (bmd) (Harold b.Jan>Mar 1880 Cuckfield, Sx to Samuel Henry Soper & Louisa Jenner who m.1878, Reigate) (Adelaide b.30 Oct 1886)
1911 census : 60 names
Ada Soper (c1881-?) 30m wife in 6 rooms at 53 Jefferson Road, Sheerness, Sheppey, Kt '11cen : b.Lon, dau Winifred Soper 2 b.Sheerness; also visitors Millicent Davies 24 {m2y, 1 birth}, son George 9m & Arthur Horsham 7 all b.Sheerness scan
: [Frederick James Soper {at sea '11cen} m.Ada Catherine Steer 1906 Sheppey]
Arthur Soper (c1881-?) 30 confectioner & tobacconist (self employed at home) in 6 rooms at The Broadway, Hadloe (Tonbridge Dist), Kt '11cen : b.Sherfield nr.Basingstoke, Hants : Bertha Soper 27 {m.8y, 6 births, all alive} b.Tenterton, Kent : Welfred Arthur Soper 7 b.Ashford, Kent : Leslie Ernest Soper 6 b.Fareham, Hants : Frederick James Soper 4 b.Farnham, Surrey; Leonard John Soper 3 b.Ash, Surrey; Gladys May Soper 8m b.Hadlow, Kent; & brother John Soper 36 gardener (domestic) b.Sherfield scan : [Arthur Soper m.Bertha Bourner Apr>Jun 1903]
Arthur Soper 19unm inmate [national] at New Trench, Hildenborough, Tonbridge RD, Kt '11cen; b.Ropley, Hants; 37 feebleminded age 14 to 24; under housemaster 39, 'National Ass of Feebleminded'; wife 38 matron & ass master, house master 39 & wife matron 38 both NAFM scan & scan : [Princess Christian Farm Colony, a farming community opened the year before source] : [parents Henry (c1858-1910) m.Alice Vokes at, Bullington, Hants 1889]
Charles Daniel Soper (c1873-?) 38 explosive labourer; Royal Arsenal Works (Government) in 5 rooms at 13 Gipsy Rd, Welling, Bexley, (Dartford dist), Kent '11cen b.Blackheath, Lon; Sarah Elizabeth Soper 37 {m.5y, 3 births, all alive} b.Hinton Pava, Wilts; Helen Elizabeth Soper 7; Charles Soper 5 both at school, b.Greenwich, Kt; Walter Leonard Soper 1 b.Welling, Kent; also in-laws David Lawrence 67 journeyman carpenter b.Hinton Pava & Elizabeth 67 {m.22y} b.Salisbury, Wilts (previous wife of David Lawrence) scan : [Charles m.Sarah Elizabeth Lawrence 1902]
Charles Daniel Soper m.Sarah Elizabeth Lawrence Apr>Jun 1902, Southampton, Hants (bmd)
Edward Pitt Soper (c1876-?) 35 head engineer Lieutenant, Royal Navy in 7 rooms at 31 Stuart Rd, Gillingham, Medway, Kent; '11cen, b.Portsmouth, Hants, Hilda Gwendolen Soper 25 {m.4y, 1 birth} b.Brockley, Lon & Robert Louis Soper 3 b.Cullercoats, Northumberland & Dora Kate Durrant 21unm dom servant b.Beckingham, Lon scan : [see Naval Records]
Emmie M Soper (Miss) 24unm cashier at 68-70 High St, Beckenham, Bromley RD, Kt {11 rooms} '11cen, b.Reading, Berks; assistant to Richard John Adams 39unm draper, unm sisters 44 & 41 assisting; 6 female ass drapers 16-26 & 2 gen servants scan
Ernest William Liverton Soper (c1864-?) married 47 butler, {0 children} at Pokhill {12 rooms}, Harrietsham, (Hollingbourne dist), Kent; b.Downe, Kt '11cen, servant to Victor Beigil 40unm singing teacher b.Lon; visitor John Borie 42unm architect b.Aikin, SG, US; gardener Alfred Lewis 53 Cudham, Kt & gardener's wife Allen 50 b.Hever, Kt {m.30y 1 birth} scan : [m.1904]
Mr F' Soper 35 night watchman (firm?) in 1 rooms at 8 Burlington St, Blackheath Hill, Greenwich, b.Blackheath, Kent '11cen; wife E Eliza Soper 34; b.Merryhill, Glasgow, Scotland scan : [no F. Soper m. to an Eliza c.1908; not vis '01cen]
Harold Soper (c1880-?) head at [68 Tunbridge Wells / Buckland / Hill], age 31 dealer b.[East & West], Haywards Heath, Sussex & wife Adelaide Mary Soper 24 b.Stoke Newington : [Harold m.Jan>Mar 1911]
Henry John Soper (c1865-?) 46 carpenter RN retired; now shipwright Royal Dockyard (working at home) in 5 rooms at Hoopers Road, Rochester, Medway, Kent '11cen, b.Downe, Kent; Margaret Hannah Soper 45 {m.24y, 5 births, all alive} both b.Morice Town, Devonport, Dev; Margaret Lewins Soper 12; Arabella Milenda Freda Soper 9 both b.Torpoint, Cornwall; Grantham Soper 6 all at school, b.Gillingham, Kent scan : [Henry John m.Margret Hannah Hall 1887 Stoke Damerel, Dev]
Henry J Soper (c1888-?) 23unm shipwright on 'HMS Hearty', Medway '11cen, b.Stoke, Devonport, Dev scan & : [not obvious '01cen (a Henry J 19 seaman on royal yacht)] : [?a Henry John RAF 1917 to 1931]
Henry Frederick Soper (c1871-?) 40 pensioner, Royal Marines in 6 rooms at 95 Colledge Rd, Deal, (Eastry dist), Kent '11cen, b.Andover, Hants; Jane Emma Soper 47 {m.19y, no births} b.Deal, Kent; & boarders Lucy Lowlinson 62 widow {m42y, 9 births, 7 alive} b.Hucknal, Notts & Lottie Lowlinson 7 school b.Nottingham scan : [m.1880]
Ida Soper (c1873-?) 38unm cook at Oakwood Cottage {7 rooms}, Musthall?, Tonbridge '11cen, b.Loddiswell, Dev; servant to Maurice Churchill 70 widower {m.31y, 6 children, 4 alive} b.Midlothian & housemaid Lily Dyln 21unm b.Paighnton, Dev scan : [
Ida b.Apr>Jun 1874, b.Totnes to Charles m.Milenda Blackler 1869, Kingsbridge, Dev]
James George Soper 31 labourer in 2 rooms at 6 Rose St, Mile Town, Sheerness, Sheppey, Kt; b.Sheerness; Edith Soper 25 {m.under 1y, no births} b.Leyton, Ex scan
James Souper (1863-?) 48 labourer, Callenders Cable Works, Erith in 4 rooms at 51 Upper Abbey Rd . Belvadere [Dartford RD], Kt '11cen, b.Portsmouth Hants; Liza Souper 38 {m.16y, 1 birth, (husband 2 births)} b.Colchester, Essex; John Souper 15 labourer at Calledors; dau Ellen Souper 20unm bith b.Belvadere, Kent? scan : [not vis '01cen]
James Henry Owen Soper (c1867-?) 44 foreman, Railway Co's Carriage Works in 6 rooms at 136 Beaver Rd, Ashford '11cen, b.Chippingham, Wilts; Maria Harriet Soper 36 {m.16y, 2 births, both alive}; Owen Norman Soper 14; Edward Cyril Soper 7all b.Ashford, Kent & wife's mother Hannah Francis Jenner 77 widow, private means b.Hackney, M.sx scan : [m.1895]
James Soper (c1873-?) 38 artificer engineer John James Arnsby Soper (c1858-?) 53 widower solicitor (working at home) in 3 rooms at 24 Hammer St, Gravesend, Kent; b.Holborn, Lon; living with widowed sister Mary Elizabeth Mason 51 head {m.28y, 6 births, 5 alive} scan : [a London solicitor biog (prison & bankrupt 1908-9, d.1920 Croydon)] : [parents Richard Coltman Soper m.Elizabeth Arnsby 1854 Beds]
Kate Sopper (c1857-?) 54unm at 26 The Bayle {7 rooms}, Folkstone [Elham Rd], Kt '11cen, b.-, Lon visiting head Margaret Hanbury Davis 27unm b.Sydney, NSW, Ada Tuff 39 domsetic & Alice Henlst 40 sick nurse all unm scan : [see parents William m.Anne Reeve 1852 above]
Lillian 10 patient at Metropolitan Imbecile Asylum, Darenth nr.Dartford, Kent; birthplace not known, '11cen scan : [?Lilian Soper b.Jan>Mar 1900, Holborn, Lon : ?Lilian Annie Soper b.Jan>Mar 1901 Wandsworth, Lon or ?Lilian Martha Soper b.Jan>Mar 1901 St Saviour, Southwark, Lon]
Louisa Soper (c1853-?) 58 widow on private means {5? births, all alive} in 9 rooms at 50 Upper Grovenor Rd, Tunbridge Wells '11cen, b.Wingham, Kent & dau Clara Maud Soper 30um governess b.Tunbridge Wells; boarder David Henry Tyler 35unm house gurnisher (employer) b.Pottock?, Bedford & servant Elizabeth Annie Coleman 19unm b.Eastbourne, Sx scan : [Louisa & Clara, sailed Bristol to Montreal 1912] : [Henry 1st m.Ann Saxby 1844]
Louisa Caroline Victoria Soper (c1867-?) 44unm in 12 rooms at Glen Ruth, Richmond Ave, Cliftonville, Margate '11cen, b.Horsham, Sx with companion & friend Emily Whitaker 62unm retired proffessional nurse b.Liverpool, cook Minnie Louisa Euden 18 & housemaid Hilda Jessie Euden 15 both b.Margate scan
Mary Soper (c1879-?) 32unm housemaid at 15 Vaberley Park {17 rooms}, Tunbridge Wells, Tonbridge, Kt '11cen, b.Compton, Dev; servant to Eleanor Erle 74unm, private means, Ellen Jones 32 companion (a servant); cook 42, Mary Redknap 33 lady's maid & Emily Bradley 37 parlourmaid all unm scan : [Mary Elizabeth b.1878 Paignton]
Mary Emma Soper (c1848-?) 63 widowed head {m.38y, 14 births, 4 alive} in 2? rooms at 137 Hope St, Sheerness, Sheppey, Kent; son Frederick Soper 24 skilled labourer, rigger, HM Dockyard both b.Sheerness & grandau Maud Stacy 13 at school b.Sheerness scan : [William Soper m.Mary Emma Monk 1873]
Margaret Juliet Soper (c1896-?) 15 pupil at boarding school at Worcester Park School, Westgate-on-Sea, [Thanet RD], Kt '11cen, b.Highgate, Lon; 18 female pupils 10-17 under Elizabeth Walsh 54unm schoolmistress of boarding school, Ass, maths 46unm & parlourmaid 28 scan : [sailed from Durban, SA>Eng 1928]
Mr Soper 34 greengrocer at [1 Blackheath/E/Rd], Greenwich, Lon; '11cen; b.Blackheath, Kt; Mrs Soper 30 b.� Marsh, Bucks; Elizabeth Soper 9 & Lucy Soper 7 both b.Blackheath
Norman Bowden Soper (c1875-?) 36 dental surgeon, LDS, RCS Eng, in 9 rooms at 6 Folkstone Rd, Dover, Kt '11cen, b.Norwich, South Heigham, Norfolk; Florence Lizzie Louise Soper 33 {m.7y, 2 births, both alive} b.Battersea, Lon; Norman John Christopher Soper 6; Stephen Frederick Edmund Soper 4 both b.Dover, Kt & gen serv Florence Annie Maria Standing 24unm b.Ramsgate, Kt scan : [m.Florence Lizzie L Soper 1903, Lambeth, Lon]
Robert Soper (c1875-?) 36unm tailor, patient at 'London Orad', Swanley Junction [now 'Swanley' nr.Sevenoaks - 3 hospitals for Londoners away from smog], Dartford '11cen, b.not known scan : [?perhaps '01cen Robert 29 imbecile at Darenth, Kt]
Richard Soper (c1896-?) 15 attending school, at London Orad Swanley Junction, Southfleet, [Dartford RD], Kt '11cen, b.not known : [page of 3 -16y olds, no birthplaces] scan : ['01cen a Richard 5 pauper, inmate at Edmonton institution]
S Soaper (c1877-?) (Mr) 34unm compositor in 7 rooms at 3 Albert Rd, Tonbridge '11cen, b.-, Dev; 1 of 4 lodgers inc printer & printer engineer, with Alfred Howell 46 butcher, wife 50 scan : [not obvious in '01cen]
Sydney Edwin Soper artificer engineer on TB [torpedo boat] no.XI at Sheerness; Sheppey, Kent; b.Devonport, Dev; heading crew of 16, petty officer 31, po stoker 31, ERA 25, leading seamen 34 & 29, 5 able seamen 24-5, 5 stokers 21-25 & able crewman 27 scan : [Sydney m.Emelia Ann Johns 1894 Dev]
William J Soper 81 police pensioner (policeman crossed out) in 5 rooms at 7 Plaistow Grove, Bromley, Kent '11cen, b.Woodbury, Dev, Elizabeth 79 {m.58y, 6 births} b.Torrington, Dev; Albert A 41 unm postman b.Dover, Kent scan : [William m.Elizabeth Liverton 1852, Kent; in police '61cen; retired 1873]
Alice Inkenman Soper 34unm childrens maid at 24 Chayne Court, Chelsea, Lon '11cen, b.Cliffe, Kent; servant to John Rowlinnson 44 architect, wife 53, dau 14 & 11 both at school scan : [Alice Inkerman Soper b.Oct>Dec 1874 N.Aylesford, Kt]
Stanley H Soper b. Jul>Sep 1911 at Lewisham (mother ne Harrington) : mistake? : Stanley H Soper b.Jul>Sep 1923 at Lewisham (mother ne Harrington)
Gertrude Mary Soper (1911-2010) (nee Stanbrook b.28 Feb) of Shirley Hall, Langton Green, Tunbridge Wells, d.26 Apr, wife of Percy, mother of Philip, Hugh & Julia, grandmother of Andrew, David, Christopher, Edward & Emma, gr.grandmother of Oliver, funeral Durrington Cemetery Chapel, Worthing 2 May source
Marian R Soper b.Apr>Jun 1912 Woolwich (mother ne Usmar)
Theodore Soper 33, a market gardener labourer at (63 ... Hill), Spalding, Lincs '11cen b.Kent; Rose Soper age 35, b.Yeovil, S.set Theodore Soper 8 & Nellie Soper 6 both b.Chiselhurst, Kent
H Soper in Tunbridge Wells Autumn Golf Meeting : from Guardian paper, 13 Oct 1912
Alfred A Soper m.Annie C Woodhams Jan>Mar 1912 Bromley : [at Orpington, Kt WW2, see son] b.cSept 1869 b.Down/Dover Kent (?Albert b.Jan>Mar 1870 Greenwich?) ??or Alfred Ernest A Soper b.Jul>Sep 1871
Aubrey Soper m.Florence E Harford Jan>Mar 1912at Horsham, Sx : ['11cen Aubrey 29 at (2 Lee/Heath/Hill/The), Fareham, Hants, b.Crawley, Sx; in military]
Arthur C Soper m.Annie F Coates Jul>Sep 1913, Greenwich, Lon (bmd)
William Hunt Soper a Wesleyan Minister transfered from Southport to Tunbridge Wells 1913. Re-assigned to Ilkeston, 1916 : biog
George Edward Soper m.Jeanne Mildred Thow 4 May 1914 Folkstone, Kt [m.Apr>Jun Elham]; b.17 Jan 1881 Heigham to Frederick (a dentist) m.Elizabeth 1863 : biog medical Sopers
Stanley G Soper (an architect); of Brockley, Lon m.Henrietta Mabel Payne, 19 Aug 1914 [m.Jul>Sep bmd] St Alfege, Greenwich, Kent (Harriet Mabel Payne of "Greencroft", Park Place, Greenwich; b.18 Aug 1888 Deptford, Kt [b.Jul>Sep Greenwich RD] to William Frederick Payne (c1845->1920) & Elizabeth Bromwich (c1849-?) : at 38 Annandale Rd, Greenwich '91cen & 46 Annandale St '01cen as 'Hetty') source & source : [Robert m.Martha Strong 1873]
Kent units in WW1 : Service Medals (issued to all servicemen) 1914-1920 : from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
James H O Soper deputy for Ashford (1188 gross membership, Independant & State) at Oddfellows AMC [a friendly society (Annual Moveable Conference)] at Aberystwyth; 960 dlegates; Cambrian News 6 Jun 1914 scan
: [James Henry Owen Soper m.1895]
Edward K Soper m.Emily A Dore Jul>Sep 1914 at Dartford (bmd) : [no Soper/Dore births]
Col C W Soper Whitburn commanded the Royal West Kent Yeomanry (he represented Reeves Whitburn & co). From an article about bank staff & war : from the Times Newspaper, 14 Dec 1914 : 728/746n : He was chairman of the War Office's Cinematography Committee. It was being wound up & it's �72,000 earnings given to charities 25 Aug 1919 : 743/746n : See Sussex 1924 connection to...
Joseph E Soper m.Eliza George Oct>Dec 1915, Camberwell, Lon (bmd) b.8 Oct 1888 Deptford [b.Oct>Dec Greenwich reg dist]; to Joseph Ernest Soper & Charlotte Eliza Rose m.1887 Lewisham,
Alfred Soper m.Lucy M Allard Apr>Jun 1915, Greenwich; gardener buglar in territorials 1908-13; injured Gallipoli 1915 Sussex Reg : b.23 Jan 1892 Southwick, Sx [b.Jan>Mar Horsham] to Alfred & Alice Knight m.1891 Horsham, Sx
O N Soper, an apprentice of the 5th Buffs on The Roll of Honor of The Ashford Railway Works, Kent : roll-of-honour.com
Richard T Soper m.Agnes Lifford Oct>Dec 1916 at Lewisham (bmd)
James Soper m.Kathleen A Knighton Oct>Dec 1916 at Thanet, Kt (bmd) : [see Northants]
Frederick H Soper m.Edith F Sansom Jul>Sep 1917 Brentford; Frederick Henry Soper b.19 Jan 1887 Sheerness [b.Jan>Mar Sheppey]; to William & Mary Emma Monk m.1873 Sheppey
R G Soper 2 May 1917, Folkstone, Kent : Register of Seamen, Discharge Papers R174030, National Archives ref BT 372/145/51
Selina Soper d.20 Nov 1918, wife of 3 Tressillian Crescent, Brockley, Kent; probate London 9 Jan 1919 to Thomas Soper retired marine engineer, widowed husband; estate �1,310 15s; from Probate Calender, scan : [Selina (c1849-1918) d.Oct>Dec Greenwich, Lon, age 69]
Michael P Soper b.Oct>Dec 1920 at Lewisham, Kt (mother ne Bisley) : (?a Harold Soper m.Kathleen L Bisley Oct>Dec 1915 at St Martin, Lon) : [Michael Paul, 112975 Capt Royal Army Service Corps d.7 May 1942Singapore]
Harold Soper, Doris Viola Kent spinster, Albert Roland Kent & Herbert Cliveley Ellis, executors of James Kent of Gilridge, Edenbridge, Kent & 19 New Union St, City (d.9 May 1922). Claims by 1 Sept (London Gazette 11 Aug) : [Harold executor of James Kent of Edenbridge 1907]
Mrs Soper Whitburn 'went so far as to have �10 each way on her colt' more out of sentiment than belief. However her horse 'Chivalrous' won The Cup, Newmarket : from Guardian Newspaper, 7 May 1922
Robert E Soper m.Emily M Glock Apr>Jun 1922 at Camberwell
Alfred C Soper m.Dorothy K Paskins Jul>Sep 1924 Medway : [??'11cen? an Alfred Cyril 11 at Oxford, if so father John Tubb Soper m.1887 Oxford]
John R Soper m.Mabel E Overton Oct>Dec 1927 at Tonbridge (bmd) : [no Soper/Overton births vis bmd] John b.14 Dec 1872 assume seaman below
Sidney H Soper m.Inez F M Rhodes Jan>Mar 1927 Bromley [b.not obvious in bmd]
Albert A J Soper m.Evelyn E Chapman Jul>Sep 1927 at W. Ashford (bmd) : Albert Alexander J Soper b.Apr>Jun 1902, Poplar, Lon to Albert m.Maud Elizabeth Mead Jul>Sep 1900 Poplar, Lon (bmd)
Margaret Juliet Soper (c1895-?) 33 nil, sailed class on "Carnarvon Castle" ( Line) from Durban, South Africa arriving Southampton, Eng 5 Nov 1928; Last permanant address& planned future residence England; address "Sankey House", Break, W.Ashford, Kent; scan; UK Incoming Register
H C Soper (c1885-?) 43 painter, Mrs H A Soper 34, Master G L Soper 1 sailed 3rd class on "Otranto" (Orient Steam Navigation Line) from Brisbane, Australia to Southampton, Eng (ship continued to London, arriving 12 Apr 1928); Last permanant address Australia; Planned future residence England; address 63 Balfour Rd, Bromley, Kent, scan; UK Incoming Register
Wilfred A Soper m.Alice S Thompson Apr>Jun 1929 Malling; Wilfred Arthur b.1904 E.Ashford, Kt to Arthur & Bertha Bourner who m.1903
Raymond S Soper b. Oct>Dec 1932 at Lewisham, Kt (mother ne Gammons)
Denis Courtney Soper (1907-77) m.Brigid Bonar (1900-89) Oct>Dec 1929 Bromley (bmd) : b.Oct>Dec 1907 Greenwich to Robert Edwin Soper & Georgina Luckett Pool who m.1901
Owen Soper (c1896-?) 35 engineer, sailed 1st class on "Maloja" (P & O Line) from Bombay, India to London, Eng arriving 22 Oct 1931; Last permanant address India; Planned future residence British Empire; address 136 Bonver Rd, Ashford, Kent (ship from Brisbane, Australia), scan; UK Incoming Register : [from Ashford, Kent; see biog : Lieut O N Soper Punjab Reg 1919, retired 1922]
James Soper d.24 Dec 1933, of 65 Nelson Rd, Gravesend, Kent; admin Lon 29 Jan 1934 to Mary Cairns (wife of William Cairns) [no Soper/Cairnes m.vis]; estate �486 11s 11d; from Probate Calender, scan [James (c1873-1933) d.Oct>Dec, Strood, age 60]
Blanche May Soper d.29 Dec 1933, spinster of the Cottage Hospital, Hawkhurst, Kent; probate London 12 Feb 1934 to Edith Grace Punford (wife of Herbert Alfred Hamilton Punford), Florence Gertrude Clark (wife of Wilfred George Clark); estate �1,583 14s 6d; from Probate Calender, scan : [Blanche M (c1874-1933) d.Oct>Dec Cranbrook, Kt, age 59] ; with parents Henry C at Hamptead, Isabella '91cen
Norman Soper (c1903-?) 30 bank officer, Vera Soper 29 home duties, Graham Soper 3 sailed 3rd class on "Jervis Bay" (Aberdeen & Commonwealth Line) from Brisbane, Australia (via Adelaide) to Hull, Eng arriving 18 Dec 1933; Last permanant address Australia; Planned future residence British Empire; address Orpington, Kent, scan; UK Incoming Register : [Norman Percy Soper b.1903 to Percy Charles Soper & Ada Smith m.1902]
Agnes Soper d.1935, age 45 : Memorial Inscriptions Ladywell & Brockley Cemetery, Lewisham, NW Kent; source : on same grave as Arthur THOMAS d.1931, age 11 : [Richard T Soper m.Agnes Lifford Sep>Oct 1916 & Arthur T Soper b.Oct>Dec 1919 (mother ne Lifford) : Agnes Soper d.Jan>Mar 1935 age 48 : Arthur T Soper d.Apr>Jun 1931 age 11 all at Lewisham]
George B Soper Apr>Jun 1936 Lewisham, Kt (mother ne Morecombe) : [parents? Frank & Dorothy S Morcombe m.St Olave, Lon 1930]
Leonard John Soper m.Nancy M [Cornhill?] bef.1936; Leonard b.Jan>Mar 1909 Farnham, Sy; to Arthur & Bertha Bourner m.1903 at Bridge
Michael Paul Soper esq; 42 Hayes Way, Park Langley, Beckenham, Kent; joined British Nuismatic Society 1937; a member 1939 source : [Michael Paul, 112975 Capt Royal Army Service Corps d.7 May 1942 Singapore]
Henry William Dommett Soper of 'Oatlands' 210 Anerley Rd, Anerley, Kent (d.4 Jan 1937) Will proved 8 Apr 1937 by Margaret Emily Gurney & William George Hawkins two of the executors. Claims on estate 30 Jun 1937 (London Gazette 27 Apr) : [see London Notes]
Charles H 53 bank clerk (b.11 Jul 1886) at 34 Bromley Ave, Bromley, Kt 1939cen; Dorothy E 49 unpaid dom duties (b.15 Aug 1890) both married scan : [m.not vis bmd]
Norah E Soper (will m.Mr.Harvey; 'wqa 4/9/45 m') 13 at school (b.26 Oct 1925) at Gladish Farm, W.Ashford, Kt 1939cen; with Ronald W Smith b.4 Dec 1905 transport contractor (O A), wife Edith b.1 Jan 1877; unm dau b.Doris M b.30 May 1906 udd; 5th line Norah; 8th Joyce M Vera b.20 Sep 1923; 9th Joyce M Lawreen b.22 Feb 1925 both at school lines 3, 6. 7. 10 & 11 temp withheld scan
Frederick William Soper d.14 Oct 1939 of 1 Midway Place, Bush Rd, Deptford, Kent; admin Lon 14 Nov 1939 to Elizabeth Mary Lindsay, married woman; estate �438 5s 10d; from Probate Calender, scan : [Frederick W (c1864-1939) d.Oct>Dec, Deptford, age 75] : [Elizabeth M m.Richard Lindsay below] : [Frederick William Soper m.Mary Lloyd Jul>Sep 1895, Southwark]
Henry Soper d.17 Mar 1939, of 440 Abbey Rd, Abbey Wood, Kent; died St Bartholomews Hospital, Lon; administration London 17 Apr 1939 to Kate Lily Soper, widow; estate �1,254 6s; from Probate Calender, scan [Henry (c1894-1939) d.Jan>Mar, London City, age 45]
Norah E Soper (will m.Mr.Harvey 'wqa 4/9/45 m') 13 at school (b.26 Oct 1925) at Gladish Farm, West Ashford, Kent 1939cen; with Ronald W Smith b.4 Dec 1905 transport contractor (O A), wife Edith b.1 Jan 1877; unm dau b.Doris M b.30 May 1906 udd; 5th line Norah; 8th Joyce M Vera b.20 Sep 1923; 9th Joyce M Lawreen b.22 Feb 1925 both at school lines 3, 6, 7, 10 & 11 temp withheld scan : [no Norah b.c1925]
Robert George Soper d.10 Jun 1939, of 5 Arrol Rd, Beckenham, Kent; 'admin (with will)' London 22 Aug 1939 to Mildred Annie Keutgen, married woman; estate �757 13s 3d; from Probate Calender, scan [Robert G Soper (c1880-1939) d.Apr>Jun, Bromley, Kent, age 59] : [Robert George m.Charlotte Annie Chiffince 1903 Wolverton, Hants]
James Soper d.23 Feb 1939 of 78 Heath Rd, Wateringbury, Kt; admin Lon 15 Apr 1939 to Phillis Beatrice Soper, widow; estate �381 7s 8d; from Probate Calender, scan [James (c1872-1939) d.Jan>Mar, Tonbridge, age 67] : [James m.Phillis Phillips m.1895, Frome, S.set]
Edward Cyril Soper of 136 Beaver Rd, Ashstead; a civilian who died WW2 on 24 Mar 1943 at Stanhays, Godinton Rd Ashford War Memorial. The Ashford memorial lists about 51 civilians who died that day & night : roll-of-honour.com, 76 badly wounded: [see parents m.1895] :
Louis Soper (c1917-1943) leading aircraftman, RAF Volunteer Reserve, d,7 May 1943, age 27, b.Jul>Sep 1920 at Greenwich RD (mother nee Gregory) parents Arthur & Lucy : wife Amy. Residence, Rotherhide, London. Grave 241, Moose Jaw (Rosedale) Ctry, Saskatchewan, Canada, Lot 8, Block 10 : Died of wounds or injuries received on active service, in The Times 8 July 1943. The family moved to Canvey Island, [his brother Cornelius, below, also died WW2] : [parents Arthur m.Lucy Gregory 1898 St Olave, Lon]
Cornelius Soper (1920-1944) a leading signalman on HMS Copra, Royal Navy. 5 Nov 1944, died age 22 : residence Canvey Island, Essex : on Chatham Naval Memorial, Kent from from Commonwealth War Graves, lost, crewing a landing craft invading the Dutch island of Walcheren : b.Jul>Sep 1920 Greenwich RD (mother nee Gregory) parents Arthur Soper m.Lucy Gregory 10 Apr 1898, Rotherhithe, dau of Wm Thomas Gregory (St Olave bmd district) : [Nancy Ellen had m.cert 4/05 - sent to their grandchild Ssammy 2/06, from rootschat] : [Cornelius's brother Louis above, also died WW2] : [parents Arthur m.Lucy Gregory 1898 St Olave, Lon]
Albert Soper d.1944, age 74 : Memorial Inscription, Ladywell & Brockley Cemetery, Lewisham, NW Kent; source : on same gravestone as James George WELLS d.1932, age 62 & Jane BIRCH d.1932, age 87 : [at cemetary William Robert (c1845-1902), Mrs Mary Ann (c1846-1920), Thomas (c1852-1921) & wife Selina (c1849-1918), Albert (c1870-1944), Mrs Alice Ward Soper (c1873-1945), Charles (c1875-1948), Agnes (c1890-1935)]
Alfred A Soper m.Annie C Woodhams Jan>Mar 1912 Bromley : [at Orpington, Kt WW2, see son] b.cSept 1869 b.Down/Dover Kent (?Albert b.Jan>Mar 1870 Greenwich?) ??or Alfred Ernest A Soper b.Jul>Sep 1871
Arthur E Soper m.Elsie C Powell Oct>Dec 1947 Lewisham : [2nd Soper/Powell m. : Herbert C m.Marjorie H Jul>Sep 1940 Ex : Soper/Powell births at Tonbridge 1947; Bromley 1948 & Watford 1959]
Thomas P Soper (c1926-?) 23 student, sailed tourist class on "Empress of France" (Canadian Pacific Line) from Montr�al, Qu�bec, Canada to Liverpool, Eng arriving 10 Jun 1949; Last permanant address Canada; Planned future residence British Empire; address 34 Bromley Avenue, Bromley, Kent, scan; UK Incoming Register
Ernest Soper Couzins d.13 Dec 1949 Wandsworth convicted of murder, Maidstone 19 Nov 1949; sentenced to death; hung 30 Dec [d.13 Dec National Archives], age 49, at Wandsworth; executioner Albert Pierrepoint: National Archives ref PCOM 9/1542 : On 3 Aug Ernest (who'd been in the army) of 22 Glenside Ave, shot Victor Elias at 35 George's Place, Canterbury, in an argument over a debt & then failed at suicide source : [bmd Ernest S Couzins d.Oct>Dec 1949 Wandsworth]
John Robert Soper & Mabel Ellen Soper executors for Florence Kirby 47 Forest Rd, Tunbridge Wells, Kent & also 45, Grosvenor Rd, Skegness, Lincs. (d.27 April 1951) (London Gazette 25 May) : [John R Soper m.Mabel E Overton 1927 Tonbridge, Kt]
David H Soper d.Margaret R Simmons Jan>Mar 1952, Bromley, Kent (bmd)
Hilda May Soper (c1883-1954) d.30 Nov 1954 age 71, spinster, at Royal Victoria Hospital, Folkstone, Kt; address 7 Tennyson Place, Folkstone; bur.4 Dec 1954, Hawkinge Cemetery, Hawkinge, Folkestone scan : [Frederick butcher m.Hannah Lewarn 1878 at Plymouth, Dev]
Derek Soper, 4 The Broadway, Broadstairs, Kent: BSc (Agric) R'dg 1954; Field Trials & Dev Agric/Hort Prods, May & Baker Ltd; Google Books snippet from Directory of British Scientists pub.1966
Elizabeth Soper, won 3rd prize for Christmas cake; Childcare & Welfare Dept, Thanet Technical College 1969, newspaper photo ebay
W E Soper B.Sc Phld, 44 Coney Hill Rd, West Wickham, Kent : Mrs M F E Soper, BA, same address, both 1971; mentioned in The Archaeological Journal pub.1975 Google Books snippet
Jean Evelyn Soper m.Albert William Copus (only son of William Copus & Louise Bentley - from Ramsgate UK). I am a grand daughter; Suz Copus (Brighton, England)
: boards.ancestry.com
Kent, National Burial Records : from findmypast.com
Soper Places
Sopers Lane & Farm, Hawkhurst, Cranborne, Kent, (near Gills Green) in 6 inch OS Map of Kent c1905 map; a smugglers store found there 1822, dating from mid 1700's source
Soper's Lane Farmhouse, Hawkhurst in Tunbridge Wells Dist, a grade II Listed Building; also Sopers Barn Sopers Oast, Sopers Ln source
Soper Lane bounded land divided by John Robbins of Hinxhill, Kent in the 'den of Seysely', (nr Hawkshurst?) in 1643 [so was probably considerably older - see John Sopere, of Shoreham 1425, in same document batch] : E.Sussex records Office ref DUN 33/2 : National Archives
Sopers Lane, next to a property being leased in Seysely, 1642 : Dunn family deeds in Chersfords, Benenden & Rolvenden, Kent : E.Sussex Record Office ref DUN 33/1 www.a2a
Carolyn Depp see 1777 above : source : source 2
Joyce Holmes, Victoria, Australia : Sarah Soper ; pre 1812, Maidstone, Kent : source
Robin Singer, Edith Soper of Sheppey, great aunt see '91cen
Stepen Soper researching ? Soper m.Charlotte Amelia Baughan - children Raymond Ernest Soper (m Veronica May Gittins) & Carol Soper - [no dates or places] : GeneaNet.org
Ann Stead William John Soper m.Harriett Stead 15 Feb 1874, Deptford, son of Henry a fisherman.
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John Soper m.Sybella Parry m.after 1771 (dau of John Parry of St Pauls, Deptford, a tallow chandler, who owned a wharf & d.1769 & wife Ann d.1795). Sybella Soper & sister sister Sarah Parry left her house, 25 Feb. 1795 in widow mother's will Anne Parry, of Gang Ln, Greenwich, Kt, 1796 archive.org, Parry Family Archive of 1910 : [which speculates connection with Frances Soper heiress of Dummer, Hants who m.Thomas Garnier, son of Mary Parry '(1781 & 1849)' {but no link vis Hants}]
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: Sybella Soper mention.... : Sybella Parry does belong to the Parrys of Deptford, potters most of them. I looked-up Anne Parry's 25 Feb 1795 will (proved 29 Dec 1796) & find a Sybella Soper. Ann of Gang Ln, Greenwich, widow of John Parry was previously Anne Watkins widow. She mentions no children of her own, but Sybella Soper & Sarah Parry children of her husband.... also mentions in conection with Garnier & Parry family tree .... 'who m.F Soper' p.170 snippets from Magazine of History 1910 Google Books
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Sybella Soper & Sarah Parry, were left house, Gang Lane, Greenwich by their mother Anne Parry,nee Watkins, widow of John Parry gent. Rest left to nephews. Will proved 29 Dec 1796 : source
: [connection? a Sybella Soper (1814-1891) b.Stephney to James & Elizabeth of Edmonton?]
: [John & Sybella Soper bpt.Joseph 18 Aug 1782, Southwark]
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: ?a Valentine Soper apprenticed to Samuel Hatch, taylor 23 Jun 1792 at Rainham, Kent; ; Register of Duties Paid for Apprentices' Indentures scan
: Valentine Soper, a victualler was given the Freedom of Deal, Kent, 14 Apr 1803 : source : [a Valentine sentenced to death Lent assizes 1820, Kent] : [Valentine 1 of 156 convicts transported on the 'Maria', Convicted at Kent Assizes for a term of life. Departed 26 July 1820. Arrival: Hobart, Van Diemen's Land : [Valentine m.Sarah Dummett, Tasmania 1821 (a convict released 1835)]
- Trayton Slatter Soper bpt.22 Feb 1807 Hadlow, Tonbridge, Kt, Died age 2, gravestone 1807-1809 at St Marys, Hadlow, Kent [see right] source
- Sarah Soper bpt.23 Jun 1810, Hadlow : died age 1, on brother's gravestone, 1809-1810
- Maria Soper bpt.3 Sep 1811, Hadlow; m.Isaac Brotherwood 1839, St Martins, Lon ['41 a Hadlow grocer]
- John Soper bpt.4 Jan 1816, Hadlow : ?'61cen 42 plumber at Tunbridge Wells with family; d.1890, age 73
- Henry Soper bpt.17 Dec 1817, Hadlow : ?plumber m.Ann Saxby 1844, St Martins, Lon
- ?an Elenor Soper b.1816-20 Kent with John/Obedience in 41cen; ??'71cen an Ellena Varco, widow on funds & india stocks 45 visiting Henry
: 1840 Mr Soper lodging house keeper at Rose Cottage; 1840 Tonbridge directory : [only Sopers in Tonbridge '41cen John & Obedience]
: 1840 Obedience Soper milliner or dressmaker of Hadlow Rd, Kt; Pigots 1840 Directory for Tonbridge source
: '41cen, John 55-9 at Church Ln, Tonbridge; not b.Kent; Obedience 55-9, Elenor 25-9 both b.Kent; & Katural Read 15-9, Celia Willes 15-9, Mary Hope 15-9 servant. all b.Kent; scan
: 1843 connection? a John (c1816-?) in Herts Court, 2 Jan 1843; aquittal & 13 Feb 1843; imprisoned
: ['51cen, Henry b.Kent abt 1818 visable]
: '51cen
: 1851 Obedience a dressmaker in 1851 Tonbridge Directory
: 1854 a John died Oct>Dec 1854 & Obedience died Apr>Jun 1855 both Tunbridge bmd
: 1855 Obedience Soper death registered Jun>Aug 1855 Tonbridg
: ['61cen Henry plumber, Tunbridge Wells empl 15 '71 (?with widowed sister Elinor Varce 45?) & '81]
- William Soper bpt.7 Dec 1806 St Leonard's, Deal, a rev & schoolmaster of Margate m.Mary Ann Atwood 1829; Lon missionary (his son William Verner Soper an army sgt)
- John Soper bpt.3 Jul 1808 Deal Independent Chapel; assume a Margate carpenter m.Susanna bef.1841 & re.m niece Harriet Soper 1867 & d.1880
- Robert Soper b.20 Apr 1810*; bpt.7 Jun, Deal IC (all non-conformist baptisms)
- Kitty Soper b.21 Sep 1811*; bpt.24 Nov, Deal IC
- Elizabeth Soper b.13 Jul 1814*; bpt.29 Oct, Deal
- Mary Ann Soper b.12 Aug 1815*; bpt.15 Sep Zion Chapel, Last Ln, Dover (Countess of Huntingdon)
- Kate Soper 'Katie'* bpt.10 Feb 1817, Dover ZC (b.8 Jan) [or bpt.1 Jul 1817*]
- Grace Soper bpt.30 Apr 1818, Dover ZC (30 Jan)
- Hannah Soper b.23 Apr 1821; bpt.25 May (to William a grocer at Independent Chapel, Corn Market, Sandwich), [or bpt.1 Jul*] : '41cen ??servant in Lon?; m.Frederick Hughesdon Jan>Mar 1847 Lon E; '51cen Fred'k 31 solicitor's waiting clerk; Hannah 28 governess at Worksop, dau 3 & son 1 b.Lon scan : [Fred'k (1819-1894) b.7 Aug Bethnal Green, Msx. d.Islington, Msx thehunthouse.net]
- Thomas Soper bpt.18 Aug 1823 both at Sandwich 'Corn Market Independent or Presbyterian Chapel', father a cabinet maker
- Grace Soper b.22 Dec 1824; bpt.25 Jan 1825 Margate Zion Chapel (Lady Huntingdon's)
- Sarah Soper b.26 Sep 1826; bpt.12 Dec Margate ZC
- - - niece Harriet Soper b.c1826 Broadway, Dev; '41cen ?a Harriot 15 b.Dev & Sarah Collins at 16 Fore St, N side, Stoke Damerell, Morrice, Dev scan (family listed above of cabinet maker John Marker 30); '51 24 niece with Wm; '61cen 35unm with Wm; 1867 m.son John [2nd wife]
: 1809 William carpenter of Deal, Kt mentioned in conveyance for land abutting the new street called Nelson St; from bundle of deeds for 10 Nelson St; source : [seems Wm not living Margate til c1825] : [If him, then only 22; so father Wm?]
: 1821 William a grocer & in 1823 a cabinet maker; from his childrens' Sandwich baptisms
: 1826 William carpenter of Margate, sold to Charles Hayward of Deal, carpenter & his wife Elizabeth a 'newly erected tenement & land at Nelson St, Deal' [from same bundle as above source]
: 1828 Wm Soper of Margate, personal affairs documents 1828 & 1839;at Kent History & Library Centre, source
: 1832 William, King St, Margate, Kent, builder & undertaker section1832-4 Pigot & Co Directory
: 1837 Gertrude Soper bur.25 Jan 1837 Margate Zionist church, aged 52
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: 1838 William Soper m.Elizabeth Dakin Jan>Mar 1838 Thanet [see niece Sarah Dakin in '71cen]
: 1839 William Soper of 17 King St, 'builder & undertaker' section in Pigots Directory, for Margate, (King St builder 1840)
: '41cen, Wm not vis, (married sons in Margate; William school master & John builder
: '41cen, ??a Hannah 15-9 (not b.Msx) 1 of 5 servants to Grace Nichol 65-9 ind at 58 Beamont St, St Marylebone, M.sx scan
: 1849 William Soper of East Crescent 1849 Thanet Directory : [now east side of Trinity Sq map, ?a 4 storey terrace streetview]
: 1851 William Soper home 2 East Crescent, Margate Post Office Directory, 1851
: '51cen William 64 retired builder at 2 East Cres; b.St Giles, Dev; Elizabeth 51 b.Southwark, Sy; niece Harriet 24unm b.Broadway, Dev & wife's niece Sarah Dakin 13 scholar b.Walworth, Sy scan : [wife Eliz ne Dakin]
: 1858 William Soper East Crescent in large list of gentry, Margate, Thanet; Melvilles 1858 Directory of Kent
: '61cen William 74 retired builder 2 East Cres; b.St Giles, Dev; Elizabeth 61 b.Southwark, Sy; Harriet 35unm b.Broadwood, Dev & niece Sarah Dakin 23unm b.Walworth, Sy
: 1886 son John re.m his neice Harriet Soper Oct>Dec 1886 Thanet : ('71cen John carpenter 60, b.Deal; at Margate; Harriet 43 b.Dev)
: '71cen William 84 retired builder at 67 Trinity Sq, St John, Margate; b.Dev; wife Elizabeth 71 b.Southwark & niece Sarah Dakin 33unm b.Walworth & 2 servants, a nurse & dom serv Sarah Westland 15 b.Margate; scan : [nurse for WIlliam, he died days later]
: 1871 William d.14 Apr 1871 Margate; of St John the Baptist parish, Margate, Isle of Thanet, Kent; Will proven Principle Registry 1 Jun 1871 to widowed wife Elizabeth Soper of Margate, John Woodward of Margate, the executors; estate under �200; from Probate Calender, scan (d.Apr>Jun 1871, Thanet, age 84, (bmd)
: '81cen Elizabeth 81 widow still at 67 Trinity Sq, St John Baptist, Margate; b.Southwark, Sy & Sarah Dakin niece 42unm b.Walworth, Sy
: 1883 Elizabeth Soper d.7 Nov 1883, widow of 67 Trinity Sq, Margate; d.Trinity Sq; will at Canterbury 11 Dec 1883 to Thomas Dakin esq of 305 Wandsworth Rd, Sy, nephew & sole executor; estate �1,427 18s 6d; from Probate Calender, scan : (Elizabeth (c1800-83) d.Oct>Dec, Thanet, Kent, age 83)
: *from werelate.org tree : [it extends no earlier]
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Joanna Soper m.William Brown (1777-1829) 9 Apr 1808 St Leonards, Deal. William bpt.16 Nov & bur.8 Dec both St.L; children all bpt St.L; Mary Ann bpt.24 Mar 11, bur.13 Nov 1814; Martha Stone Brown bpt.19 Dec 1913; Hester bpt.8 Dec 1816 & William bpt.1 Sep 1822: from researcher Carolyn Depp rootsweb
- Joseph Soper, inn keeper of Tunbridge Wells, bankruptcy meetings Guildhall 6 & 16 Apr & 14 May, Attornies Young & Hughes, St Mildreds Court, Poultry; in 'The Morning Chronicle' (pub.Lon 3 Apr) 1816, from newspapers.bl.uk
- Joseph Soper, landlord of The New Inn, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, witnessed a malicious shooting. Trial at Maidstone Assizes. William Bramwell landlord of London was collecting rent, 5 Oct 1816 at Soper's Inn. Launcelot Boniface renting next door, paid & given wine & drew a horse pistol saying 'this is for a false oath' fired into his victims head. Thinking he'd killed him, he discharged a 2nd pistol out of the window & sat down. (they had previous disagreement about a wall). Soper looked on & later a court witness. Bramwell survived, but his eye was 'completely excavated' [
: [advertising New Inn's inexpensive rooms & extensive stables 1814?]
: [Joseph bankrupt 1816?]
: [Joseph opened Castle Tavern, Aug 1817, advertising his family hotel in London] : ['41cen no Kent Joseph]
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Joseph Soper of The New Inn, expressed gratitude for liberal patronage last season, has made many improvements. Particularly suited to families visiting the fashionable resort, in Morning Post (pub.Lon) 10 Jun 1815; from newspapers.bl.uk : scan
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Joseph Soper, inn keeper of Tunbridge Wells, bankruptcy meetings Guildhall 6 & 16 Apr & 14 May, attornies Young & Hughes, St Mildreds Court, Poultry; in 'The Morning Chronicle (pub.Lon) 3 Apr 1816, from newspapers.bl.uk : [see innkeeper 1808 above]
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: 1816 Joseph Soper, of Tunbridge Wells, Kent, innkeeper, dealer & clapman [traveling sales] : Commission of bankrupt, meeting at 6 Apr & 14 May 11am at Guildhall, London when Soper makes full disclosure & creditors can prove their debts 2 Apr 1816 London Gazette : Soper hath conformed & certificate issued (Gazette 13 Jul) : 3 Aug, Certificate [Bankruptcy?], from New monthly Magazine 1816 : debtors meeting 24 May in offices of Young & Hughes, St Mildred's Court, Lon; Assignees selling stock & household furniture & his interest in several pieces of land at Uckfield & Tunbridge Wells Lon Gazette 1816: [Joseph witnessed shooting 1808?]
: 1807 ?a Joseph Soper occupied Uckfield lands of Thomas Maryon Wilson of Charlton House, Kent, These were to the S & W of a medow being leased from TMW to Alexander Cameron : 25 Mar 1807 : Archive of the Maryon-Wilson Family of Searles in Fletching : East Sussex Records Office : ref AMS/2745 www.a2a
J Soper, announces the opening of The Castle Tavern, Tunbridge Wells, 'the 1st house on the London Rd' accommodation to families & parties at very moderate terms & flatters himself it will be found (particularly from it's airy situation) both pleasant & desirable; Excelent coach houses & satbling, Superiour wines & spirits; in 'Morning Post' (pub.Lon) 25 Aug 1817, from newspapers.bl.uk : scan : [see James innkeeper 1808 above] : [1830 guide book 'Castle Tavern at the foot of Mount Sion furnishing good accommodation' source : opened c1670, giving it's name to Castle Rd, converted to a lodging house mid 18thC google map]
: J Soper innkeeper, Tunbridge Wells; Certificate, 1817; Universal Register source p.96
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: J Soper, Castle Tavern advert, 1st Tavern on London Rd, Tunbridge Wells. A pleasant & airy position. Neat Post Chaises & able horses; in 'Morning Post' (pub.Lon) 25 1818, from newspapers.bl.uk : scan : [Castle Tavern at the foot of Mount Sion furnishing good accommodation from 1830 guide book theweald.org : opened c1670, giving it's name to Castle Rd & converted to a lodging house mid 18thC google map]
- Clara Soper Hayward b.Jul>Sep 1844 (youngest of their 11 children); m.Jul>Sep 1864, both Eastry, Kt [Eastry RD inc Deal]
: '41cen William Hayward 40-44 carpenter at Deal, not b.Kent; Louisa 40-44; Louisa 19; Elizabeth 18; Maryann 16; William 14; Eliza 11; Caroline 9; Jane 7; Johannah 4; Esther 2 & Amelia 4m, all others b.Kent
: William [S]oper Hayward; bur.5 Jul 1850, age 51, abode Water St, Deal [attached to Nelson St (perhaps once same St?) ] (William Soper Hayward d.Apr>Jun at Eastry RD); his dau Elizabeth Newman registered his death, he was living in Deal, Kent*. A builder* His will says William Soper Hayward known as William Hayward left all to the family [but 'Soper Hayward' not mention vis before death]*
: '51cen Louisa Hayward 51 widow proprietor of houses b.Dover?, Kt; Jane 16 envelope maker; Joanna 14; Esther 12; Amelia 10 & Clara 5 all b.Deal scan
: '61cen Louisa Hayward 60 mother-in-law, b.Deal, Kt; at St Leonard, Hythe, Kt with James Newman 36, Elizabeth Ann 36, Mary Ann 9, Agnes 3 & Alfred 1
: bundle of deeds for 10 Nelson St inc 1809 conveyance of land abutting Nelson St, Deal, a new St & 1826 sale from William Soper of Margate, carpenter, to Charles Hayward, carpenter of Deal & wife Elizabeth of newly built building & land at Nelson St, Deal** [?speculate related to Charles Hayward who m.Elizabeth Soper 1801]
*from thead from Rosemary Tulley; Thames, NZ (Amelia's grgrgrdau) hunting John's birthplace & Soper connection genesreunited **2nd thread Sep'13 from Rosemary; "John was a craftsman & made coffins" [?perhaps 1/3rd of the 400 Hayward 20thC bmd entries at Eastry use apparent surname as middle name]
: King v Soper & others. Inditement against 5 for disobeying an order of the Kent justices. Required to re-admit James Margetts as a member of a benefit club called 'Philantropists'. New trial requested as defendants were described as treasurers but were not, court granted rule nisi; in 'The Morning Chronicle (pub.Lon 11 May 1824), from newspapers.bl.uk
: On appeal 1825, [Soper no longer a steward] verdict overturned & new trial ordered. : see google books
: [Sarah Soper bpt.St Mary Magdalene, Woolwich, Kt (igi) (parents m.not vis igi) m.George Francis Apr>Jun 1847 North Aylesford dist (bmd)]
: [offchance? of Sarah Francis 1853 death in UK port bmd Apr>Jun Bristol, Jul>Sep Swansea & Oct>Dec Newport (bmd)]
- Grace Soper b.c1830 Kent
- ??a John Soper b.1831, Greenwich to William/Mary (but not vis '41cen); other children below to William & Mary Ann
- Mary Ann Soper b.1831 Margate
- Emilia Soper b.1833 Margate
- William Venner Soper b. 1836 Margate : [a William V 44, a school visiter b.Margate in Camberwell '81cen] : d.Jan>Mar 1884 Lambeth age 48
- Mary Ann Soper b.1838, Woolwich
- Emily Gertrude Soper b.1838 Thanet, Kent : [m.George Harris (of Ramsgate) 28 Jul 1860 N.Adelaide, Aust. Emily 1/3rd dau of W Soper, London missionary; '61cen in Lancs; m.Richard C Archer, 60 baker, 20 Sep 1880, at Renfrew [Ontario, Canada]; d.Canada 1923]
- Hannah Soper b.1840 Kent
- Edward Soper b.Oct>Dec 1846 Shoreditch, Lon
: 1840 William & Mary Ann master & mistress at an infants school, Dane Place in Pigots Directory, 1840 for Margate, Kent : William & Mary, school teachers also mentioned in 1839 source
: '41cen William 30-4 infant school master at St John the Baptist, Margate, with Mary 35-9, Grace 11, Mary Ann 9, William 4, Emily 2�, Hannah �. all b.Kent : scan : [see biog Relgious Sopers]
: John Henry Soper b.c1810 Sheerness; [Charles Thomas Soper (c1816-1893) perhaps his brother but cannot prove From Dawn CTS's grgrgrdau (see below)]
??so not? the John bpt.3 Jul 1808, Independent, Deal, Kent; to William & Gertrude (igi)
- Frederick William Soper bpt.26 Dec 1832 St Leonard, Shoreditch, Middx, (igi); pupil teacher 16 '51cen
- Emma Ann Soper b.1834 Shoreditch, [bpt.23 Jun 1833 St Paul Covent Garden, Westminster (igi)]
- John Henry Soper bpt.6 Nov 1836 Old Church, St Pancras,
- George Robert Soper bpt.25 Feb 1838 Old Church, St P (igi) [b.Apr>Jun 1838 St.P] : ??m.Elizabeth Longman Cogan 1860 Clerkenwell (a seedsman); d.6 Jul 1888 Stoke Newington
- Sarah Ann Soper b.1842 St P, [?bpt.4 Jul 1841 Old Church, St P (igi)] [or? b.Oct>Dec 1844 St.P (bmd)] m.William Joseph Turnbull Apr>Jun 1862 Clerkenwell [a mercantile clerk; assume by probate below]
- Alfred Henry bpt.9 Jun 1844 Old Church, St P & twin [Apr>Jun 1841 St.P]; not vis'51cen (nor d) : [if Alfred attacked with gun 1881 than gardener at Hammersmith with invalid wife & child]
- Charles Edward Soper bpt.9 Jun 1844 Old Church, St P (igi) [Apr>Jun 1844 St.P]; not vis'51cen (nor d)
- Helen Maria Soper b.Jan>Mar 1847 St.P; not vis�51cen (nor d)
- James Friend Soper b.Oct>Dec 1848 St P, bpt 28 Jan 1849, Old Church; tailor [m.Eliza Frankenham Oct>Dec 1870 Holborn]; d.25 Nov 1930, age 79 ['Friend' may indicate non-conformist family? JFS's gr.son Methodist leader, Rev Donald]
- Selina Neame Soper b.Oct>Dec 1850 St P, [m.Oct>Dec 1870 Holborn either Henry Evans or John Robert Wakelin]
- William Samuel Soper b.1855 & twin (b.Jan>Mar 1853 & d.Jan>Mar 1856 Camberwell)
- Walter Horace Soper b.1855 Camberwell (b.Jan>Mar 1853 & d.Oct>Dec 1855 Camberwell)
- Arthur Soper 1860 St James, Clerkenwell. [b.Apr>Jun 1859] a tailor; m.Alice Tugwell 1880 Camberwell
: �41cen John 'Smith' 30-4 tailor at Tottenham, St Pancras; John 50-4 tailor; Sarah 30-4; Caroline 15-19 all b.outside London; Frederick 8; Emma 6; Sarah 1; all b.Lon scan [John leads 4 other households, 25 people in property] : [?George 3 mislayed, not vis '51cen (as Soper) so who was John 50? & Carloline not dau as b.4-9y before m?] : [Why bpt children "Soper" but in 2 census "Smith"; '41cen possibly implies John Smith a step-father? or some adoption for (business/inheritance)?]
: �51cen John 'Smith' 41 foreman to tailor at 13 Tottenham Place, St P; b.Sheerness; Sarah 39 b.Bolton, Kt; Frederick W 18 pupil teacher; Emma A 16 at house both b.Shoreditch; George R 13; Sarah A 9 both scholars; James F 2 & Selnia N 5m both at home all b.St Pancras; also lodger Thomas Bodford 16 pupil teacher b.St Pancras scan
: �61cen John 'Soper' 51 tailor's foreman at 17 Upper Charles St, St James, Clerkenwell; b.Sheerness, Kt; Sarah N 49 b.Milton, Kt; Sarah A 19 unm; James F 12; Selina N 10 both scholars, all b.St Pancras; Arthur 1 b.St Jas Clerk; also sister-in-law Eliza Warren* 42unm nurse b.Milton & 3 lodgers Mary Ann Muller 64, annuitant b.Egham; William S Smith 24 conveyancer's clerk & James T Smith 22 carpenter b.S,Molton : [*as unm, so was John's wife Sarah a widow? *2 young 'Smiths' with him now]
: '71cen John 61 a tailor cutter at 17 Upper Charles St, St James, Clerkenwell; b.Sheerness, Kt; Sarah 59 b.Pooghton Mathers?, Kt; Arthur 11 scholar, b.St James, Msx; also lodger Mary Ann Muller 74unm annuitant b.Egham, Sy : scan
: �71cen 2nd household, same address [son] James F 22 tailor cutter; Eliza 20, both b.St Pancras, Earnest 7m, b.St Andrews, M.sx
: �81cen John 71 master tailor, empl 10 men, 2 boys�at East Hill Tailors Shop, Wandsworth; b.Sheerness; Sarah 69 b.Pluckley, Kt; & gen dom serv, Emma Gold 17 b.Marylebone, Msx; scan
: John d.26 May 1887, tailor of East Hill, Wandsworth, Sy; died East Hill; will Principle Registry 1 Dec 1887 to George Robert Soper son, horticultural sundriesman of 300 Amhurst Rd, Stoke Newington, M.sx; William Joseph Turnbull mercantile clerk of 26 Fitzroy Terrace, Regents Pk, M.sx [son-in-law]; the executors; estate �636; from Probate Calender, scan : [John (c1810-1887) d.Apr>Jun, Wandsworth, age 77]
: Sarah Neame Soper (c1813-1889) d.Jan>Mar, St Pancras, Lon, age 76
: �91cen James Soper 10 scholar visting [aunt] in 2 rooms at 26 Fitzroy Rd, (St Marks), St Pancras, Lon '91cen; b.Wandsworth, Sy visiting William Turnbull 55 mercantile clerk; Sarah Ann Turnbull 49 b.St.P, Emily 26, Clar Maud 17 both embroiderers, gold & Arthur 10 all b.Lon; scan [transcribed fmp 'Loper']
: researcher Dawn grgrgrdau of John, speculates his brother Charles Thomas Soper (b.1815 Sheerness) familytreeforum.com
: Charles Thomas Soper b.1815 Sheerness to Charles Thomas Fowler (b.1788 St Nich, Rochester-1822) & Ann Soper (b.1788 Gillingham, unm). (a later marriage not visable); Suspect John Henry Soper b.1810 Sheerness is his brother [see m.1830] but cannot prove From Dawn CTS's grgrgrdau: source: &
: ?speculate Charles Soper bpt.24 Oct 1819 St Alphage, Greenwich, Kt, mother: Amey Soper (but if him bapt abt 3y after birth)
- Charles Thomas Soper b.c1837 Sheerness/Gillingham (telegraph clerk); '71cen 34unm writer & grainer; '91cen 54unm clerk with parents; d.Jan>Mar 1895 Greenwich, age 58
- Catherine Ann Soper b.Jan>Mar 1839, Sheerness (Sheppey District bmd dist) : [Catherine Anne m.Oct>Dec 1862 Lewisham]
- John Henry Soper b.Jan>Mar 1841, Sheerness
- George Henry Soper b.Jan>Mar 1843 Sheerness; ?perhaps m.Matilda Maria Walden 1868 Greenwich
- William Robert Soper b.Oct>Dec 1844, (Greenwich, Lon bmd dist); '81cen William 36 house decorator. wife Mary Ann & 5 children
- Henry Edwin Soper b.c1848, Deptford; booking clerk/station master, grocer m.Annetta Whitam, 1872 at Hanover Sq, Lon [6 children in son Percy's military record] (??a Henry Thomas b.Apr>Jun 1847, Greenwich but Henry E '61cen); 1881 divorse; '81cen greengrocer 34 wife Evelyn B & 2 children
- Emma Soper b.Jul>Sep 1848, Greenwich; '71cen serv below: '81cen 27unm cook; ??possibly unm 1917 if executor to brother Henry;
- Robert Soper b.Apr>Jun 1850, Greenwich m.Martha Strong 1873; '81cen painter 30 & 4 children
- ??a Lydia Ann Soper b.Jan>Mar 1854; d.Oct>Dec 1855, Greenwich, Lon, age
- Frederick James Soper b.Apr>Jun 1855, Greenwich; '81cen house painter; m.Sarah Stevenson Jul>Sep 1882; '91cen 35 at St Paul; '01cen Frederick 45 house painter, Deptford; ?a Frederick J Soper (c1855-1924) d.Oct>Dec 1924 Greenwich, age 69
: '41cen Charles 25-9 a 'J Sawyer' [journeyman (skilled)] at New Wood St, Minster, Isle of Sheppey, Lydia 25-9, Charles 4, Catherine 2, John 4m. all b.Kent scan
: '51cen Charles 36 sawyer at 4 Shroots? Terrace, Deptford, Kt; b.Sheerness, Kt; Lydia 35 b.Gillingham, Kt; Charles 14; Catharine 12; John 10; George 8 all Sheerness; Henry 5; William 4 all scholars; Emma 3; Robert 10m all b.Deptford, Kt; also in property household of James Reeve 46 head (lodger crossed out) labourer b.Cambs, wife Louisa 46 b.Enfield? scan
: '61cen Charles 46 sawyer sharpener at 4 Knolls Terrace, Deptford St Paul; b.Sheerness; Lydia 46 b.Gillingham; Charles T 24 electric telegraph club; George H 18 porter, parcel delivery company, both b.Sheerness; William R 15 printer labr; Henry E 13 vender of newspaper; Emma 11; Robert 9, both scholars; Frederick 5 all b.Deptford
: 1870 ?a Charlotte Soper 79 d.Medway Oct>Dec 1870
: '71cen Emma 20 gen serv, b.Deptford; at 13 Tyrwhitt Terrace, Deptford, St Paul; with 2nd servant Assmouth J Morrick 22 nurse b.Wilts & 2 visitors Sarah Fleet 54 widow living from rents derived from homes & Mary Ann Colson both b.Syden
: '71cen Charles 56 pensioner H M dockyard at 4 Knott's Terrace, Deptford, St Paul, Kent; b.Sheerness, Kt; Lydia 58 telegraph clerk, b.Gillingham, Kt; Charles 34 writer & grainer, b.Sheerness; Robert 20; Frederick 15 both plaster's apprentices, both b.Deptford; also lodger George H Handcock unm dyer 28 b.Westminster scan
: '81cen Emma 27unm cook at 40 Blessington Rd, Lee; b.Deptford: with Edouard Chrestien 47 East India mrchnt, wife b.Germany, 4 kids b.Bengall, India; visitor 22 b.Germany; housemaid 24 & 20
: '81cen Charles 68 sawyer b.Sheerness at 4 Knotts Terrace, St Paul, Deptford; Lydia Ann 68 b.Gillingham; Charles T 44 unemployed clerk b.Sheerness, Frederick James 25, painter b.Deptford : [sons William 36, Henry 34 & Robert 30, all heads in Kent '81cen]
: '91cen Charles 76 retired sawyer at 117 Tanners Hill, Deptford, St Paul, Lon; b.Sheerness, Kt; Lydia A 76 b.Gillingham, Kt; son Charles T 54unm clerk b.Sheerness; scan
: 1892 Thomas Soper (c1858-) age 34 of St Margaret Parish, admitted Fulham Rd Workhouse, St George's Union, Westminster; diet nr.1, 12 Jan 1892, painter, 2 Florence St, brother Robert Soper 190 Lewisham High Rd scan : [ '11cen Frederick 55 painter at 2 Florence St, No Thomas b.above, so was this Frederick?]
: 1883 Charles Thomas d.*1883 age*; son Charles Thomas d.*1895, age 54? wife Lydia d.7 Sep 1899, age 87 (*unreadable from photo), bur.Ladywell & Brockley Cemeteries, Lon (Kt) billiongraves.com
: 1893 Charles Thomas Soper (c1816-1893) d.Jan>Mar, Greenwich, age 77 (bmd)
: 1895 Charles Thomas Soper (c1837-1895) d.Jan>Mar 1895, Greenwich, Lon, age 58
: 1899 Lydia (1813-1899) d.Oct>Dec, Greenwich, age 87
: Isac Brotherwood a wealthy man at Hadlow, Kent, bought unharvested hops from farmers went bankrupt when crops failed 2 years. James Harding & Henry Merfield purchased his house & contents & gave it back to him & set him up in grocery & victualler business. Part of deal was that dau Maria 18 would m.James Harding. Isaac had 4 dau's the four Beauties of Hadlow. [so c,1862]
: children; Ellen Obediance b.17 Jul 1840 Kent: Maria b.26 May 1844 [Tondridge RD]; Clara b.[20 or] 6 Jun 1846 in Kent; Agnes; source
: grocer & glass dealer in 1840 Hadlow directory; '41cen Isaac age 26>30 grocer at Hadlow; Maria 21>25; Ellen 10m;
: Isaac rented Hadlow St, Hadlow at �25pa (tenant for 2y more) when auctioned (?1853) source : Isaac Brotherwood grocer of Hadlow, executor of John Saxby miller of Hadlow 1853 : [Maria's bro? Henry m.Ann Saxby 1844]
- Lucy Soper bpt.15 Dec 1839, St Alphage, Greenwich [b.Oct>Dec] : ?a Lucy d.Jul>Sep 1855, Lewisham, Lon [d.1855*]
- William John Soper bpt.3 Nov 1841 both at St Alphage, Greenwich [b.Oct>Dec] : William J d.Jan>Mar 1925, age 84, Romford, Ex
- Mary Ann Soper b.Jan>Mar 1844, Greenwich, Lon
- Henry Thomas Soper b.Apr>Jun 1847, Greenwich [an Ancestry.com tree says Henry Edwin Soper (1847-1917)]
- Alfred Samuel Soper b.Apr>Jun 1851 & d.Oct>Dec 1851, Greenwich
- Charlotte Ann Soper bpt.30 Jan 1853 at St Paul, Deptford to Henry; [b.nt vis bmd] a Charlotte Ann d.Jul>Sep 1854, Greenwich, Lon
: [not vis '41cen; Henry's death not obvious bmd (Henry d.1850; Charlotte d,1877* - neither vis bmd)]]
: '51cen Charlotte 38 widow, laundress?? at 57 New St, Greenwich, St Nicholas, Kt; Lucy 11 scholar both b.Greenwich, St Nicholas, Kent; Mary Ann 7 both scholars; Henry 4; Alfred Sam 1m all b.Deptford, Kent; sharing address with household of Jacob Clark 30, Emily 23 & twins 4m scan
: 1860 Charlotte Anne Elizabeth Soper m.William Mears Jan>Mar 1860, Bromley, Kt
: '61cen Mary Ann 17unm dress maker New St, Deptford St Nicholas, Kt & Ann 6 scholar both b.Deptford, Kent; stepdau in household of stepfather William Mears 55, lighterman b.Deptford, Kent & wife Charlotte Mears 48 b.Greenwich, Kent,
: '71cen Ann L 17unm servant at 68 New St, Deptford, St Nicholas, Kt; b.Deptford; dau with John Campbell 65 waterman b.Deptford & wife Charlotte 67 b.Greenwich scan
1886 ??a Charlotte Annie E Soaper m.Jan>Mar 1886, Bromley, Kent; [to either Edward Patrick Lyons or John Philip Tidy]
: [*an Ancestry.com tree]
: Richard/Charlotte children b.Chatham (igi) : assume Lieut Richard a naval officer, commanding gunboat 1813
: below b.c1788-1791 at Chittenleigh, Sx; so assume Thomas bpt. & b.Nov 1788 Chiddingly, Sx to Richard & Jane Jarvis, who m.1771 [& assume couldn't write]
: 1830s Thomas Offham tithe '30's Directory? [Offham SW of Rochester; W of Maidstone] : a house & premises on 18 units of land [perches?] source
: ?'51cen Thomas 63 wheelwright at Offham, Kt; b.Chittenleigh, Sx; Margaret 63 b.Cuxton, Kt; scan
: [Thomas cooper, at Offham; Post Office Directory]
: 1858 directory; Thomas wheelwright of East Malling & assume the same Thomas cooper of Offham, East Malling
: ?'61cen Thomas 70 wheelwright at Offham St, Offham, b.Chitten Leigh, Sx; Margaret 70 b.Cuxton
: 1864 Margaret d.Jan>Mar 1864 age 70 Malling, Kt
: '71cen Thomas Sopher 82 widower, cooper, deaf; b.Chiddingbury, Kt lodging at Church Field, West Malling, Malling, Kt, with John Foreman 62 gardener, Ann 69, dau Jane 29 laundress, gr.son Jane 8, gr.dau Annie M 4 all b.Malling, Kt & lodger George Filmen 16 grocer scan : [no Soper/Foreman m.in bmd]
: 1873 Thomas d.Jan>Mar 1873 age 85 Malling
: John Soper b.Deal, Kt c1809; assume the John bpt.3 Jul 1808 Deal to William & Gertrude Venner who m.1806 Deal
: 1840 John builder of 6 Marine Parade, Pigots Directory for Margate source [also father Wm builder of King St 7 bro Wm schoolmaster]
: '41cen John Soper 30-34 carpenter at The Parade, St John the Baptist, Margate & Susanna Soper 30-34, both b.Kent scan : [on seafront overlooking harbour]
: 1849 John Soper builder of Newby's Place, Market St, (Margate) see 1852 map & John Soper builder of 3 Andrew's Place
i Williams1848 Directory of Isle of Thanet source
: 1851 John builder, 15 King St, Margate; Post Office Directory, 1851
: '51cen John 42 master carpenter empl a man & 11 app; 15 Kings St, Margate; b.Deal, Kt; Susannah 48 b.Margate scan [father William 64 at East Cres])
: 1858 John carpenter, Kings St, Margate; Melvilles Directory 1858 source: at 55 Kings St in Bear's Postal Directory 1858 : [?a Sopers Yard, at 66 King St, Margate, in 2016, see below]
: ?a John of 67 Trinity St, Margate : Bear's Postal Directory for Margate 1858 source
: '61cen John 52 carpenter employing 1 man & 2 apprentices at 15 Kings St, Margate, b.Deal; wife Susanna 57 b.Margate
: '61cen Harriet 35unm niece b.Broadwood at 2 East Crescent, Margate; with William 74 builder & undertaker; Elizabeth 61 (John will m.Harriett, neice, also with them '51cen)
: 1866 Susannah d.Oct>Dec 1866, Thanet, Kt, age 63
: 1867 John re.m to cousin Harriett Soper (b.c1828 Broadwood, Dev) Oct>Dec 1867, Thanet (bmd); [see '61cen above]
: 1869 John at 67 Trinity St, Margate [home?] & John builder & undertaker of 55 King St, Margate; Bear�s Postal Directory 1869
: '71cen John (c1811-?) carpenter (empl 2 men & 1 boy) 60, b.Deal; at King St, Margate, St John; wife Harriet 43, b.Dev; also boarder Robert Brown 33unm pilot, b.Deal scan
: 1880 John d.4 Nov 1880, carpenter & builder at home 55 King St, Margate, Isle of Thanet, Kent; will at Canterbury 2 Dec 1880 to his widow Harriett of 55 King St; estate under �100; from Probate Calender, scan : [John (c1808-1880) d.Oct>Dec, Thanet, age 72] : Grave at Margate cemetary John d.7 Nov 1880 aged 72 & Harriett his widow d.18 Nov 1894 aged 69 source
: '81cen Harriett 55 widowed head, lodging house keeper 55 King St, St John Baptist,�Margate; b.Broadwood, Dev (only resident)
: '91cen Harriet 65 widow living on own means at 55 King St, Thanet, Margate, Kt; b.Broadwood; also niece Mary Dridge [Doidge] 11 b.Broadwater, Dev : scan
: 1894 Harriet d.18 Nov 1894 widow of 55 Kings St, Margate; probate London 9 Mar 1895 to John Doidge, farmer, Harriett Soper Doidge wife; estate �1,285 15s 9d ; from Probate Calender, scan: [Harriett (c1825-1894) d.Oct>Dec Thanet, age 69]
: a Harriet Soper Doidge (c1853-1904) d.Oct>Dec Tavistock, Dev age 51 {??speculate 2nd wife's dau ; 3 Soper/Doidge m.vis bmd} '91cen John Dodge 38 farmer at Nethercotte, Broadwoodwidger; Harriet Soper Doidge 37; Thomas Rockey Doidge 17 assistant; John 15 ass; Harry 13; Bessie 9; Rosina 8; Fred 6 all scholars, all b.Broadwood & Maria Knight 60unm serv source (connection? William Perry d.& property transfered? to John Doidge Perry & William Soper Perry of Whiterow, Lewdown... {a John Soper Perry b.c1816 Dev; a John Doidge Perry b.1846 in '61cen})
: '51cen?? a Susanah Soper 52unm pauper at Church St, Barracks, St Edmund, Salisbury, Wilts; b.Salisbury; alone; 4 neighbours widowed paupers, heads; scan
- Henry Lewis Soper (1845-1877) b.12 Feb Hadlow [igi]; m.Apr>Jun 1868 Romford, Ex, d.c27 May, aged 32, Romford biog
- Frances Soper 25 Oct 1846 Hadlow [igi] : m.John Jones 20 Feb 1872 at Brixton; ['71 John living with family, 33unm tutor BS]
- Alice Soper bpt? 27 Jan 1850 Hadlow [igi] : [??an Alice b.Jul>Sep 1849 Tonbridge] m.Horace Wightman Waller 14 Oct 1873 at TW
- Catherine Soper 30 Mar 1851 Hadlow [igi] : m.Johann Wilhelm Ebart of Berlin 16 Jun 1870, Holy Trinity Church, TW; youngest dau of Henry of TW ('61cen not vis)
: [Henry Soper m.Louisa Phillips Jul>Sep 1874, Eastry, Kent (bmd)] :
- Clara Maud Soper b.Jul>Sep 1875 Tunbridge Wells : [school governess, '01cen/'11cen], to Canada with widowed mother 1912, age abt 37unm
- Horace Ebart Soper b.c1878 b.Tunbridge Wells; m.Violet Ellen B Hughes Jan>Mar 1902 Horsham, Sx : to NZ 1903?
: ['51cen Henry 33 plumber painter ext, emp 2 men, 1 apprentice at Street, Hadlow, Kt, b.Hadlow; Ann 34 b.Tudley, Kt; Henry L 6 scholar; Alice 1; Catherine 2m all b.Hadlow; with wifes sister Ellen Saxby 24unm annuitant b.E Peckham; house servant Harriet Helusley 17 b.Hurton & married vistor Jane Godden 36 b.East Peckham scan & scan2] : ('41cen no Kent b.Henry)] :
: [1851 directory, High Halden, plumber] :
: [1858 plumber & glazier of Hadlow, nr,Tunbridge]
: ['61cen Henry 42 living at Jiweh? Place, Tunbridge Wells; a married plumber & house decorater, employing 18 & son Henry Lewis 16 both b.Hadlow, Kt & servant 20unm (wife Ann 44 & Alice 11 not vis)]
: [1862 ?a Pvt Soper of Tunbridge Wells Rifles won 2 guineas at Rifle Contest of Volunteers, Margate; in 'Standard' 13 Sep 1862, from news.bl.uk; scan (Henry only Soper in TW)] :
: [1867 Ann d.4 Jun 1867 age 50 at Tunbridge Wells, wife of Henry, 'Morning Post' (pub.Lon 7 Jun), from newspapers.bl.uk photo right] : [Ann d.Jan>Mar 1864, age 50 Tonbridge] : [bur Woodbury Park Cemetery, Tunbridge Wells, also on gravestone, husband Henry (c1817-1890), age 73 source]
: ['71cen Henry 51 decorater (emp 15) at Tierah? House, 28 Church St, TW; son Henry L 26m wholesale tea dealer & dau's Frances 24unm, Alice 21 all b.Hadlow, Kt & visitors Ellena Varco** 45 widow, funds & india stock b.Westerham, Kt & John Jones* 33unm tutor BA b.Strauran, Scotland & gen dom serv Ann Warren 20 b.Hadlow : scan [**?is Ellena; Henry's sister? Elinor b.c1816] (Henry Lewis's wife Jane M 29 & sons 2 & 3m in Essex)] :
: [Henry at Milford House, Tunbridge Wells when dau m.1873]
: [Henry Soper m.Louisa Phillips Jul>Sep 1874, Eastry, Kent (bmd)] :
: ['81cen at Tonbridge, Henry 61, wife Louisa 30, son & dau Clara M 5 & Horace E 4]
: [*Frances m.John Jones 1872 &? connection to Messrs Soper & Jones, painters & decorators of Tunbridge Wells 1884; bought 4 acres 1890]
: [Henry d.28 Jun 1890, house decorator & house agent of Tunbrdge Wells; d.TW] : Henry (c1817-1890) d.Apr>Jun, Tonbridge Dist, age 73 : [bur Woodbury Park Cemetery, Tunbridge Wells source]
: [Henry's will Principle Registry 2 Aug 1890 to Louisa wife, Horace Whiteman Waller, solicitors managing clerk, Isaac Janes of little Marlow, Bucks, house steward, 3 of the executors; estate �3,302 5s 1d; from Probate Calender, scan]
: ['91cen Louisa 40 b.Wingham, household head, at 53 Mount Pleasant Rd, Tonbridge with Clara M 15, Horace E 14, both scholars; b.Tunbridge Wells; also boarder Ernest Sanderson 24 house surveyor b.Canterbury, Kt & gen serv Mary Pratt 23 b.Pembury, Kt] :
: ['01cen Louisa 49 b.Wingham, Kent at 53 Mount Pleasant Rd, Tunbridge Wells; Clara 25 governess, Horace 24 architects clerk both b.T.Wells & vistor [in 2 rooms?] Ernest Sanderson 34 1867 auctioneer b.Canterbury, Kt seems visitors & gen serv Elizabeth Turner 22unm b.Hadlow Down, Sx] :
: [Horace Ebart Soper m.Jan>Mar 1902 Horsham, Sx; "may have emigrated to New Zealand c1903" see sussex] :
: ['11cen Louisa 58 widow on private means {5? births, all alive} in 9 rooms at 50 Upper Grovenor Rd, Tunbridge Wells; b.Wingham, Kt & Clara Maud Soper 30um governess b.TW; boarder David Henry Tyler 35unm house furnisher (employer) b.Pottock?, Bedford & servant Elizabeth Annie Coleman 19unm b.Eastbourne, Sx scan] :
: [Mrs Louisa Soper housekeeper & Miss Clara Maud Soper adult, domestic sailed 2nd class on "Royal George" (Royal Line), Bristol to Montreal, Canada, from 12 Jun 1912; Last permanant residence England; Intended future residence Canada; scan; from findmypast] : [?were the ladies meeting a relative in Canada? (??son Horace b1878 with them '01cen, m.1902, but to to NZ 1903?)]
: researcher John Soper ancestry.com grgrgrandson of Hurbert's half-brother : [so Henry Lewis?]
: John Soper builder of 3 Andrew's Place (Margate): [John m.Susanna bef.1841]
: William Soper of East Crescent (Margate) : [William m.1806 (father of John above)]
- John Henry Soaper b.cAug 1850, Lon, [none of the London births below vis bmd]
- Margaret Soaper b.c1854, Lon
- Emma Soaper b.c1862, Lon
- James Soaper b.c1864, Lon; labourer ('b.Aberdeen' '91cen)
: '51cen John Soaper 22 glass polishers clerk, at 37 Woolmore St, Poplar, Lon; b.Aberdeen; Caroline 23 & John Henry 10m both b.Lon; a 2nd household at address; scan
: '71cen John Soaper (c1831-?) landlords servant 40 at 27 Hancock Rd, Bromley St Leonard; b.Scotland; at 27 Hancock Rd, Bromley St Leonard; Caroline 41; John 20 bricklayer; Caroline 19 machinist, all b.Lon; Margaret 17 dom serv b.Birmingham, W.wicks; Emma 9; James 7 both scholars b.Lon scan
: '81cen John Souper 43 gen laborer at 5 Spencers Cottages, Erith Marshes, Kt; b.Aberdeen, Scotland; Caroline 43 housekeeper; James 18 gen labourer; Elizabeth 16 all b.Lon
: '91cen John Soaper 60 (c1831-?) widower, labourer (employee) {3 rooms} at Johnsons Cottages, Belvedere, Erith, Kent, (DartfordRD) & son James 27unm labourer both b.Aberdeen, Scotland; sharing property (or 3 rooms?) with family of 7 of James Kory 46 labourer b.Berks scan
: ?a John Souper (c1830-1900) d.Jan>Mar 1900, age 70, Dartford, Kent
: '11cen ?a James Souper 48 labourer at Callenders Cable Works, Erith in 4 rooms at 51 Upper Abbey Rd, Belvadere [Dartford RD], Kt; b.Portsmouth, Hants; Liza 38 {m.15y, 1 birth, (husband 2 births)} b.Colchester, Essex; Ellen 20unm b.Belvedere, Kt & John 15 labourer, Callenders b.Belvedere Marshes scan [assume James rem.Liza c1896 but not vis bmd]
: ?a James Souper (c1867-1936) d.Oct>Dec 1937, age 70, Dartford, Kent
??speculate Robert m. Jul>Sep 1845, Medway, Kt (to either Elizabeth Jennings; Caroline Down, Mary Fullagar or Mary Ann Gorham)
- Sarah Ann Soaper b.Jul>Sep 1843, Poplar, Lon
: ['61cen Sarah Ann Soaper 17 at Parrock St, Milton, Kent; b.Poplar, M.sx; niece in household of Martin Bennet 72 retired commander, Royal Navy b.Lon; wife 60 b.Portsea, Hants & house servant Elizabeth Smith 14 b.Chadwell, Ex] : [not vis '61/'71cen] : [m./d.not obvious] : [??a Martha Jane Soper m.Joshua Bennett Jan>Mar 1845, Bermondsey, Lon (bmd) (but too late)]
- Blanche Henrietta Soper b.Jan>Mar 1857 St Thomas, Exmouth : [m.Frank Harris Webber Jul>Sep 1881 Bromley - not vis Apr'81cen]
- Rosa Soper b.Apr>Jun 1861 at Down, Kent : m.William Walter Drew 19 Aug 1878 Bromley, age 18 & 20 (igi)
- Alice Maud Soper b.Jan>Mar 1865 b.Down : '81cen 16 dom serv : [m.Hugh Ralph Oct>Dec 1887 Bromley]
- Ernest William Liverton Soper b.3 Oct 1867 Bromley; b.Oct>Dec 1867 Down : [91cen footman 25 at Tormoham, Dev; m.Marie Louisa Stahl, Lon 1904; '11cen servant 47 at Hollingbourne, Kent b.Downe; m.Lizzie H Cram 1932 Alton, Hants; '39cen butler 72]
- Albert A Soper b.cSep 1869 b.Down/Dover Kent (?Albert b.Jan>Mar 1870 Greenwich?) ['91 not vis; '01 marine in navy; '11 with parents] : [?an Alfred Ernest A Soper b.Jul>Sep 1871 : Alfred A m.Jan>Mar 1912 Bromley to Annie C Woodhams]
- Frank Arthur Soper b.Jan>Mar 1875 ['81cen b.Bromley age 3] : [?a Frank d.St Thomas 1901 age 28] : [?'01, '11cen not vis] : navy stoker Boar War 1902 see below
- William James O Soper b.4 Jun 1877 Bromley Common : an Admiralty seaman 4 Jun 1877 : d.Jan>Mar 1900 age 22 Bromley
: '61cen William (c1831-?), job 'police' 30 at Elon Cottage, Down, Kent (Bromley district) wife Elizabeth 29 : dau Blanch K 4 all b.Dev, also Mary Leverton 60, widowed laundress b.Dev {assume m-in-l} ancestry.com
: '71cen William J 40 at Lock's Bottom, Farnborough, Kt; b.Weedbury, 'Scotland', Elizabeth 39 b.Withycombe, Dev, Rosa 10, Alice 6, Earines {Earnest?} 3, Albert 19m (kids b.Downs) scan
: '71cen Blanch 14 at 4 Charles St, Withycombe Raleigh, Exmouth, Dev; with grandmother Mary Leverton 71 widowed laundress b.Halberton & dau Harriet Leverton 46? laundress b.Exmouth
: 1873 William James retirement from Metropolitan Police: records batch covers 1873-5 : Records of Police Pensioners; Public Records Office MEPO 21/12/3891
: '81cen William J 52 labourer at 14 Skelliter Cotts, Southlands Rd, Bromley b.Wednesbury, Dev, Elizabeth 49 b.Withycombe, Ernest 13, Albert 11 both scholars b.Down, Kt, Frank 6 b.Bromley, Kt & William 3 b.Bromley Common, Kt
: '81cen Blanche 24unm lacemaker at 7 Charles St, Withycombe Rawleigh, Dev; b.Exmouth with grmother Mary Loverton [Liverton?] 79 widow laundress, b.Tiverton & dau Henrietta Loverton 40 laundress, b.Withycombe, Dev
: '81cen Alice 16unm domestic servant at 62 Masons Hill, Bromley, Kt; b.Downe, Kt; servant with H W Dalwood 60 master tailor, empl 20 men & 21 boys, b.Dor; wife 39; son 6 & m-in-l 80; & dom serv Mary A Bateman 26unm b.Cudham, Kt; scan
: '91cen at 15 Queen's Cottages, Plaistow, Bromley, 62 retired policeman b.Woodbury, Dev, Elizabeth 60 b.Exmouth, Dev, Frank A 16 carpenters apprentice & William O 13 both b.Bromley : scan
: '91cen Ernest W 25unm footman dom servant� at Imperial Hotel, Park Hill Rd, Tormoham, Dev; b.Downe, Kent; page of servants [assume of hotel guests] , mostly ladies maid scan
: '01cen William 71 pensioned police constable at 7 Plaistow Grove, Bromley, Kt, b.Woodbury, Dev; Elizabeth 69 b.Widecombe, Dev; scan
: c1899-1902 Frank A Soper Private nr.7471, 'HMS Forte'; Anglo-Boer War; next of kin, Mrs Lizzie Soper 15 Plaistow Grove, Bromley, Kent; Medal is not allotted or remitted scan
: '01cen Albert Soper 31 pte RMLI; on 'HMS Benbow', 1st class battleship of Reserve Sdrn off Keyham Dockyard; 381 men inc 69 marines & 12 officers at Devonport, Dev; b.Bromley, Kent; scan & scan
: c1902 F A Soper a private RMRS & pvte RMLI nr.7471; HMS Forte; QSA (1) Nat. Ref: Ch7.471.Source: QSA medal rolls; angloboerwar.com scan scan
: '11cen William J 81 police pensioner (policeman crossed out) in 5 rooms at 7 Plaistow Grove, Bromley, Kent, b.Woodbury, Dev, Elizabeth 79 {m.58y, 6 births} b.Torrington, Dev; Albert A 41 unm postman b.Dover, Kent scan
: '11cen William J d.Jan>Mar 1916 age 87 : Elizabeth d.Apr>Jun 1919 both Bromley
- Ellen Caroline Soper (c1855-c1901) bpt.14 Oct 1855 Chislehurst*. (b.Oct>Dec 1855 & an Ellen d.Apr>Jun 1895, age 40 both Bromley)
- William Charles Soper b.Jan>Mar 1858, Bromley, Kent; gardener m.Jane Elizabeth Driscoll 1889 Bromley RD; Royal Artillery 1900-1
- Charlotte Anne Elizabeth Soaper (1860->1881) bpt 10 Mar 1860*, Chislehurst, Kent ('Soper' b.Jan>Mar bmd, Bromley dist) : '81cen laundress 21 : m.Jan>Mar 1886, Bromley John Philip Tidy; Charlotte A E Tidy d.Oct>Dec 1926 Lewisham, age 66
- Emily Jane Soper (1862->1881) bpt 14 Sep 1862*, Chislehurst : '81cen laundress 19 : m,John Mears Jul>Sep 1888, Bromley, a coachman; [see '01cen below]
- Fanny Florence Soper (1862->1881) bpt 11 Dec 1864*, Chislehurst; '81cen dressmaker 16; '91cen 'Frances F' 26unm; m.William Henry Tidy Apr>Jun 1896, Bromley; Fanny F Tidy d.Jan>Mar 1946, age 81
- Edward Soper (c1871-?) '91cen labourer, Chislehurst 20 : an Edward Alfred Soper d.Oct>Dec.1897, age 26
- - Theodore William Soper (1877-?) '81cen b.Chislehurst : b.Apr>Jun Bromley district : [m.Rose Clarke 1901, Yeovil, S.set : In Australian Army WW1] : [Rose 25, Theodore 7 & Hellee 6 to Aus 1912]
- - Hugh Christopher Soper (c1885-?) b.Chislehurst c1885 (b.not vis Hugh & Theodore brothers & mother Charlotter); '11cen 26unm, house painter in Yeovil; Wounded W.Kent Reg 1915 nrYpres; Pvt Norfolk Reg to India (3y) 1915; Planned to go abroad 1929 WW1 record : [?a Hugh C F Soper m.Hetty A Swetman Oct>Dec 1925 & d.1959, age 74 both Yeovil, S.set; but a Hugh b.1877 Yeovil (bmd)] : [birth not vis; only bmd birth Hugh Christopher Tower Jul>Sep 1886 St Geo H Sq, Lon] : [Hugh's WW1 record says mother Mrs Tidy]
: 1838 ??a William Soper 6 months prison & James Stent 4m for stealing a goaling [gosling?] at Odiham Quarter Sessions; Hants Advertiser 6 Jan 1838 : [only linked as b.Odiham : not obvious '51cen]
: '61cen William Soaper bricklayers lab 40 at 18 Mill Place, Chislehurst; Ellen 31 b.Chislehurst, William 3 & Charlotte 1 :
: '71cen William ag lab 52 at 9 Up Park Rd, Prickend, Chislehurst; Ellen 40 laundress; William 13; Charlotte 10; Emily 8 & Fanny 6, all b.Chislehurst source scan: an Ellen 15 at Royal Sea Bathing Infirmary, Westbrook, Margate
: 1871 William d.Oct>Dec 1871, Bromley District, Kent, aged 52 : *gands.net
: '81cen Ellen widow 51 at Park Rd, Chislehurst, Charlotte 21unm, Emily 19 all laundress, Edward 9 : Also at Mill Place, Chislehurst, Ellen 24unm, Fanny 16 dressmakers & Theodore 5 all b.Chislehurst; with aunt Anne Blundell 54 (son William 23 not visable)
: '91cen Ellen 61 widowed laundress, in 4 rooms at 28 Park St, Chiselhurst, Kt; William 35 married gardener; Edward 20unm labourer; Jane 34 labourer; Frederick 6 all b.Chiselhurst with Thomas Browning 71unm carpenter scan : next door Frances F 26 :
: '91cen Ellen 30 at 2 Crown Ln, Chiselhurst, Theodore 14 & Hugh 6 b.New Cross, with aunt Annie Blundell 44unm shirt needle woman b.Chiselhurst, Kt; '81cen Ellen widow 51 at Chislehurst, Charlotte 21, Emily 19 all laundress, Edward 9 : Also at Chislehurst, Ellen 24, Fanny 16 dressmakers & Theodore 5 with aunt Anne Blundell 54 (son William 23 not visable) scan [see family 1854]
: '91cen Frances F 26unm b.Chiselhurst, in Chiselhurst; 'friend' in household of Alfred Rowe 63 b.Upminster, Essex, wife Eliza 62 b.Limehouse & dau Minnie 20 b.Chiselhurst scan
: 1901 Ellen Caroline Soper d.Jan>Mar 1901 age 72 Bromley dist
: '01cen William C 45m private soldier, royal reserves at 4 Park Rd, Chislehurst, Kent, b.Chislehurst; brother-in-law with John Mears 38 domestic coachman b.Althorpe, Northamptonshire; wife Emily 38 laundress & son William 12 both b.Chislehurst scan
: '01cen duplicate? William m (a father) 44 bombardier Royal Field Artillery at Sussex; b.Chislehurst, Kt; (378 NCOs & men, 48 wives & 12 officers) scan a, b & c
: '01cen Theodore W 24unm chemist warehouseman at 3 Queen's Cottages, Chislehurst, Kt, b.Chislehurst; Hugh 16 errand boy port b.New Cross, Lon, in 4 rooms with aunt Ann Blundell 77unm on own means b.Chislehurst; scan
: '11cen Hugh Christopher Soper 26unm, house painter & decorator, boarding in 6 rooms at 70 Victoria Rd, Yeovil, b.Chislehurst, Kent, boarding with Fred Brake Youg 31 printer, Ellen 32 {m.8y, 3 births} & children 1, 5 & 7 all b.Yeovil scan
: [dau of William Blundell & Charlotte Wherry b.c1830, bpt.14 Mar 1830, Chislehurst, Kt] :
: [perhaps William as a teenager was the Soper mining in 1830's?, A Blundell was also involved in the mine : No sign of a Hants birth. Why did William go to Kent?]
Margaret Soper in Kent Court, 3 Jul 1856; sentence Imprisonment : from Criminal Registers from Ancestry.com (where crime available)
: ['41cen John 30-34 carpenter at Minster; b.Kent]
: George Soper (c1843-1910) d.Oct>Dec 1910, Thanet, age 67
- Clara Soper b.c1863 Blackthorn, Oxon
- Henry Soper (1865-1872) b.Jul>Sep 1865, d.Oct>Dec 1872, age 7 both Greenwich, Lon
- Frances Soper b.Oct>Dec 1868, Bermondsey, Lon
- Albert Soper b.30 Jan 1870, Greenwich, Lon; [b.Jan>Mar]; railway coppersmith; b.30 Jan 1870, at New Cross; d.1944
- William Soper b.Jan>Mar 1875, Greenwich, electrician
- Georgina Soper b.Oct>Dec 1876, Greenwich; m.William Edward Leakey Jul>Sep 1897 Greenwich
- Alice Soper b.Apr>Jun 1878; m.John Dutton Wells Jul>Sep 1899 both Greenwich; boiler maker
- Edwin Soper b.Deptford; b.Oct>Dec 1879, Greenwich : [?'01cen labourer]; ?m.Ada G Leat 1913, Southwark; d.1925
- Florence Soper (1880-1893) b.Oct>Dec 1880, Greenwich; 'Florrie' & d.Jul>Sep 1893, Greenwich, Lon, age 12
: '51cen Henry 45 cabinet maker at 22 Kings St, Brighton, Sx '51cen, b.Reyssies?, Sx; Frances 40 upholsterer; Henry 11; Jane 5 both scholars all b.Brighton scan & scan2
: '61cen Henry 22unm labourer at 59 Pimlico, (St Nicholas), Brighton, Sx; b.Brighton lodging in household of Harriet Gibbs 37unm, ladies chest drawer; 3 unm lodgers John Coby 67 widowed; Leonard Alsopp 45unm b.Maresfield, Sx & Alfred Coby 22unm, other 3 b.Brighton, all 4 labourers : scan
: '71cen; Henry 31 a railway fireman, at 2 Ebenezer Cottages, Pomeroy St, Hatcham, St Paul, Deptford, Lon; b.Brighton, Laura A 30, Clara 8 both b.Blackthorn, Oxon, Henry 6 b.Deptford, Frances 2 b.Southwark, Sy, Albert 1 b.New Cross, Sy; (below 2nd household in property; Elizabeth Ludlow 56 widowed annuitant b.Billwyn? Herts, widowed dau Elizabeth Colley & 2 grdchildren 2 & 10m) scan
: Henry b.c1840, age 31 in 31 Dec 1871, fireman New Cross; wage 4s pd to 5s transfered to driver Mar'72, 5s 6d Apr'73; 6s 6d Aug'75; 7s Nov'78; ; Dec'81, driver, clothing supplied & overcoat and hat, age 43 next birthday; 7s to 7s 6d Nov'89 at Locomotive & Carriage Dept, New Cross, London, Brighton & S.Coast Railway; coat & cap supplied; record scan1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 & 12 [still driver '91cen]
: '81cen; Henry (c1840-?) 41 b.Brighton, an engine driver '(27/2)' at�6 Frederick St, St Paul, Deptford, Kt, Laura 40 b.Blackthorn, Oxford, Frances 12 b.Bermondsey, Sy; Albert 11; William 7; Georgina 4; Alice 2; Edwin 1; Florrie 4m all b.New Cross, Sy
: 1884 son Albert coppersmith's apprentice; b.30 Jan 1870, at New Cross, London, Brighton & S.Coast Railway; new hand 17 Jul 1884; wage 10d; to 1s Aug'85; 1s 4d Aug'86; 1s 6d Aug'86; 2s Jul'88 coppersmith, new hand [not apprentice]; 2s 10d Aug'90; 4s Mar'91 age 22, 4s 4d Apr'92; 4s 8d Mar'93; to 5s 4d Feb'93; 5s 8d Jul'97; 6s Oct'98; 6s 4d Feb'00; 7s 2d Aug'18; 11�s Jul'19; 12s (most entries reduced) Aug'21; 13s Feb'21 age 61; 52s 6d Nov'22; 54s Jul'23; pension nr.13260; scan1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6; 7; 8; 9; 10 11; 12; 13; 14; 15; 16; 17; 18; 19; 20; 21; 22; 23; 24; 25
: '91cen; Henry 51 locomotive driver (RE) at 6 Frederick St, (All Saints), Deptford, St Paul, Greenwich, Lon; b.Brighton, Sx; Laura 50 b.Blakham, Oxon; Frances 22 book b[inder?] folder b.Bermondsey, Lon; Albert 21 copper smith; William 16 office boy (port); Alice 13; Edwin 11; Florence 10 all scholars b.Greenwich, Lon scan : [& perhaps others] : [Frances d.not vis]
: '91cen; William 20unm domestic servant at 104 Foxberry Rd, Brockley, (All Saints), Deptford, St Paul, Lon '91cen; b.Deptford, Kent & other dom serv Henry Thorburn 19 & Nicholas Wingfield 16 both b.Deptford; (a fishmonger at 104 & butcher 106); scan & scan
: '91cen; Georgina 14 at 77 New Cross Rd, Hatcham, (All Saints), Deptford, St Paul; b.New Cross, Sy; visiting Bernard J Spane 63 butcher, b.Norwich, Norfolk, Emma 65 b.Rochester, Kt & son Henry B 28unm jeweller b.Southwark scan
: 1897 Henry (c1839 - ) joined Railway Workers Union, New Cross Branch, Kent 16 Oct 1897, age 58, driver; L B & S G Railway; scale B, left 31 Dec 1900; scan
: '01cen; Henry 61 at 34 Barlborough St, Deptford, St Paul, Lon. b.Brighton, Sx; stationery engine driver;Laura D 60; Albert 32unm boiler coppersmith; William 25unm lghting electrican; Edward 21unm builders labourer all b.New Cross, Lon & housemaid Amy Taylor 17 b.Nunhead, Lon; scan
: ??another Henry (c1831-1903) d.Apr>Jun 1903, Fulham, Lon, age 72 : [other Sopers 6 doors down] : [& Charles Soper b.1867]
: Laura Dina A Soper (c1840-1904) d.Oct>Dec 1904, age 64, Greenwich, Lon
: '11cen Henry 71 engine driver, LBSE railway {m.45y, 5 living children} in 7 rooms at 34 Barlborough St, New Cross, b.Brighton, Sx; Albert 41 copper smith, LBSEr; Edwin 31 tennis bat maker & driller (employee); both b.Deptford, Lon; & son-in-law John Dutton Wells 35 boiler makers mate LBSEr b.Camberwell, Alice Wells 32 {m.11y, 2 births} , Gradys Laura 6 & Doris Jane 3, all b.Deptford scan
: 1914 Henry Soper (c1839-1914) d.Jul>Sep 1914, age 75, Greenwich
: '39cen Albert 69unm retired coppersmith (b.30 Jan 1870) at 34 Barlborough St, Deptford, Lon; with John D Wells b.3 Sep 1875 metal tuber, heavy worker; Alice Wells* b.4 Apr 1888 unpaid dom duties scan [*? assume sister but b.1878]
: 1944 son? Albert (c1870-1944) d.Jul>Sep, age 74, Bromley, Kt; Albert d.1944, age 74; Memorial Inscription, Ladywell & Brockley Cemetery, NW Kent; source; on same gravestone; James George Wells d.1932, age 62 & Jane Birch d.1932, age 87 : [Sopers at cemetery William Robert (c1845-1902), Mrs Mary Ann (c1846-1920), Thomas (c1852-1921) & wife Selina (c1849-1918), Albert (c1870-1944), Mrs Alice Ward Soper (c1873-1945), Charles (c1875-1948), Agnes (c1890-1935)]
- Harry Soper b.Oct>Dec 1867, Greenwich : [Pvt Royal Artillery militia 1885-97 army record]
- William John Soper b.16 Sep 1870 Deptford; [b.Oct>Dec Greenwich]; fishmonger; m.Caroline Hare 1893, Camberwell, Lon
- Charles Soper b.Jan>Mar 1873 Deptford (G'wich RD); fishmonger m.Alice Maud Wingfield 1895 Greenwich
- Jessie Soper b.Oct>Dec 1880 & d.Jan>Mar 1882, age 1 both Greenwich
- Eleanor Soper b.Jul>Sep 1878, G'wich; m.William McCormick Apr>Jun 1903, Lewisham, Lon
- Lily Soper b.Oct>Dec 1882, G'wich; '11cen florists ass 27unm ?a Lily m.Mr Langston Jan>Mar 1916, Greenwich
- Arthur Soper b.29 Sep 1885 Deptford, Kt [b.Oct>Dec G'wich]; '11cen house painter 25unm; Pvte Labour Corps WW1 record, London Reg, Royal Fusiliers, Queens Reg; 1919 British Expeditionary Force, France, Sergeant on demob 1920
: '71cen William painter 26, at 37 Adolphus St, St Paul, Deptford, Kt; Mary A 25; Harry 3; William 6m all b.Deptford; 2nd household in property with Eliza Godley 30 wife of engineer, dau 5 & 1 & brother 18 painter scan
: '81cen William R 36 house decorator at 6 Tanner Hill, [Henry 34 grocer at nr2] St Paul, Deptford; Mary A 35; Harry 13; William J10; Charles 8; Elenor 2; Jessie 4m all b.Deptford, Kent
: Harry (1867-?) Pvt nr.6195 12 Coy, Transport Corps, Royal Artillery 1885-97; b.Greenwich, Kt, a metal turner; 5ft 5�in; 121lbs; chest 33�in; good development; fresh complexion; blue eyes; bown hair; C of E; parents William & Mary Ann, 106 Tanners Hill, Deptford, Kt; Attested Woolwich Apr 1885 age 18y 1m [so b~Mar 1867]; Home service 14 Apr 85-13 Apr 97 (12y service); Character by H Bird upholsterer of Lucas St; Joined at Aldershot Apr 1885; Good conduct: Dublin Sep 85 (18d sick Oct & 49d sick Dec 85; 2nd class certificate of education 3 Sep 86: Discharged Driver Apr 1897 after 12y service; Good character army record
: '91cen William R 46 at 106 Tanners Hill, (St John), Deptford, St Paul, Lon; Mary A 45; Charles 18; Eleanor 12; Lilly 8; Arthur 5; all b.Deptford scan : [Harry 23 not vis; parents at nr.117]
: '01cen William R 56 house decorator (paint) at 105 Evelina Rd, Camberwell, Lon; Mary Ann 55; William 30 fishmongers salesman; Charles 28 fishmonger; Lily 18 florist shop assistant; Arthur 15, all b.Deptford, Lon; scan
: William Robert Soper (c1845-1902) d.Apr>Jun 1902, age 57, Southwark, Lon
: '11cen Mary Ann 65 widow in 4 rooms at 41 Childener Rd, New Cross, Greenwich; Lily 27unm general florists ass; Arthur 25unm house painter (employee); all b.Deptford, Kent & dau Eleanor McCormick 32m {m.9y, 1 birth} b.Deptford & gr.son Stanley McCormick 7 b.Catford, Hants : scan
: '11cen Harry 43 electrical warehouseman, worker at electrical engineers in 3 rooms at 92 Garden Buildings [3 rooms - 'Duteb? Storage'] St Olave, Bermondsey, Lon; b.Deptford, Kt; Mary Ellen 43 {21y, 6 children, 5 alive} b.Dublin, Ireland, Ethel May 13 school b.Peckham, Lon, Gertrude Elenor 11 school, Winifred 9, Dorothy Lilian 7 all b.Bermonsey; scan
: painter at 41 Childeric Rd, New Cross, 1915 (& 1920) [from Arthur's WW1 record]; next of kin, mother Mary Ann Elizabeth Soper
: ??a Mary A E Soper (c1846-1920) d.Apr>Jun 1920, age 74, Lewisham, Lon
: Ann Soper bur Woodbury Park Cemetery, Tunbridge Wells, also on gravestone, husband Henry Soper (c1817-1890), age 73 source
: '71cen George 2, grandson at 13 Adolphus St, Deptford, St Paul, Kent; b.Deptford with Matilda 21 wife of a railway clerk b.Greenwich, Kt with her parents Henry Walden 55 engine tender at works b.Woolwich, Kt, wife Matilda 55 b.Chelsea Lon; sons Alfred 27 & Henry 18 both b.Greenwich; & lodger Alfred Deal 27 engine fitter scan
John Henry Soper b.1842 Sheerness, Kt. : Hannah b.1848 to Daniel Dandridge & Martha Smith 1841 Dandridge tree : [Hannah dau of Daniel (1817-65) & Martha Smith (1819-68)]
- Lydia Virginia M Soper b.Oct>Dec 1869 Blackheath [Lewisham RD]
- John Henry E[dwin] Soper b.Jan>Mar 1871 Blackheath [Lewisham]; ?but 14m in '71cen; m.Alice Elizabeth Usmar 1901, Woolwich; '11cen gen lab & 4 kids; d.1932
- Charles Daniel Soper b.Jul>Sep 1873 Blackheath; labourer; m.Sarah Elizabeth Lawrence 1902, Southampton, Hants; [a Charles D d.Jan>Mar 1926 at Dartford age 53]
- Robert Edwin Soper b.Jan>Mar 1874 Blackheath; butler; m.Kate Amelia Beecroft Jul>Sep 1894
- Maud Helena Soper b.Jul>Sep 1875 Blackheath : [assume the Maud Helena Soper who m.1898]
- Edwin Harold Soper b.Apr>Jun 1877 Blackheath; '11cen 24 machine labourer; m.Elizabeth Parker/Wakefield 1900, Greenwich, Lon
- Wilfred Augustus Soper b.3 Oct 1878 Blackheath [b.Oct>Dec Lewisham]; labourer; m.Ada J Atkins 1921, Watford, Herts; d.1955
- Frederick Lionel Soper b.Jan>Mar 1880 Blackheath, baker; ?a Frederick L Soper d.Oct>Dec 1933, Lewisham, Lon, age 54
- Edith Winifred Soper b.1881 Blackheath
- Jessie May Soper b.Oct>Dec 1883 Battersea, Sy [Wandsworth RD], dom serv
- Arthur Stanley Soper b.31 Mar 1886 Plumstead, Kt [b.Apr>Jun Greenwich RD]; '11cen boundsman; m.Nellie Putnam 1915 Greenwich; '39cen 53 grocery shop ass
- Hannah Soper b.c1889 Plumstead [not vis bmd; from '11cen age 22]
- Leonard Albert Soper b.28 May 1892 Greenwich, Kt [b.Jul>Sep Lewisham RD]; '11cen grocery ass [only LAS in bmd so?? a L A Soper 1919, Bath, S.set : discharge from register of seamen] m.Priscilla E Fitzgerald Jul>Sep 1922, St George Hanover Sq, Lon
: '71cen John H 29 a marine store dealer at 2 Dartmouth Passage, Blackheath, Lewisham, Kt. b.Sheerness; Hannah 22 b.Wycombe, Bucks; John W D 14m & Lydia V M 2m both b. Blackheath, also sister-in-law Susannah R Dandridge 15 shop ass b.City, Lon & visiter Elizabeth Featherslow 15 gen serv b.Blackheath scan : [John listed before Lydia, might be 14w but not possible]
: '81cen John Hy 40 greengrocer & marine dealer at Dartmouth Passage, Lewisham; b.Sheerness; Hannah 32; Lydia 11; John 10; Charles 8; Robert 7; Maud 5; Edwin 4; Wilfred 3; Frederic 1; Edith 2m all b.Blackheath, with George Thos Hancock greengrocers serv 36unm, b.Lambeth, Sy
: '81cen Domme A Soper [?John H E] scholar 12 b.Blackheath with Robert Austin 31unm school teacher; mistress (sister) 33, matron 39, governess 24, ass master 24, cook 34, housemaid 19, page 15 & 12 boys 8-14
: '91cen at Union St, Lewisham : [not vis]
: '01cen John H 60 confectioner (baker), self employed at home at 5 Tranquil Passage, Blackheath, Lon, b.Mile Town, Sheerness, Kent; Hannah 52 b.Hockwellop, Bucks; Charles D government labourer 28; Wilfred Augustus government labourer 22; Frederick L journeyman baker 21; Edith W Soper 20 all b.Blackheath, Lon(/'Kent'); Arthur S Soper page boy 15; Leonard A Soper 8 both b.Greenwich, Lon scan
: '01cen John 30 government labourer in 4 rooms at 6 Creed Place, Greenwich, Lon, b.Blackheath, Lon; wife Alice 31 b.Maidstone, Kent; sister Hannah 12 b.Plumstead, Lon; scan
: '01cen Jessie M 17 domestic servant at 5 Eliot Hill, Lewisham, Lon, b.Battersea, Lon; with Robert R West 51 ironmonger, b.Shefford, Beds wife 40 & son 5m & Lizzie Scars 28 dom servant b.Greenwich scan
: '11cen 69 painter at Woolwich: readhistory.co.uk
: '11cen Hannah 62 married confectioner tobaconist (self employed at home) {m.41y, 14 births; 13 alive} in 5 rooms at 5 Tranquil Passage, Blackheath, b.Bucks; Wilfred 32 fishmonger (retail, employee); Arthur 25 boundsman (provisions, employee); Leonard 18 grocery assistant (retail) all b.Blackheath, Lon & dau Jessie Devine 27 {m.2y, 0 births} b.Battersea & husband Patrick Devine 26 tinman (packing case maker) b.Ireland scan
: ?'11cen Hannah (c1889-?) 22unm servant, job 'nil' [Mr Dew's opinion?!] in 8 rooms at 15 Parsons St, Banbury, Oxfordshire, b.Plumstead, Kent servant to Alfred Dews 38 manager, b.Kensington, wife 30, sons 2 & 8m & nursemaid Elsie Field 15 b.Oxon scan
: 1918 ??a Wilfred A Soper, Private, London Regiment, nr302761; WW1 service medal [but another Wilfred A]
: '39cen Leonard Albert 47 manager fishmonger & poulters (b.28 May 1892) at 1a Winchcombe St [near 105 High St], Cheltenham, Glos; Priscilla S E 51 household duties (b.1 Mar 1888) scan
: 1946 Priscilla S E Soper (c1887-1946) d.Apr>Jun 1946, Cheltenham, Glos, age 59
: 1958 Leonard A Soper (c1892-1958) d.Jul>Sep 1958, Cheltenham, Glos, age 66
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H W Soper, [perhaps?] an under tenant of James Lamb who had glebe leases, Lee R, Kent, Dio Southwark : Church of England Record Centre 1850-1917 ECE/7/1/3783/1 : [R Lee mention, so perhaps to do with this family? a son WDS]
: '81cen Louis 40 painter (out of employ) at 8 Mount St, Stoke Damerel�; Mary A 26 both b.Plymouth, Hants; Sarah J 9 Shorncliffe, Kent; John H 3 both scholar; Walter 2 m both Devonport
Soper J Sugden (c1844-?) a engineer 27, b.Sheerness; in Reserve of Sheerness at Minster, Sheerness 'Borne on the books but not on board' (page 51 of 52 so abt 1,000 names?) : scan : [born 4 July 1839 see sailing sopers]
Soper T Sugden (c1840-1929) d.Jan>Mar 1929 Malling RD, Kt age 89
: [parents Charles Thomas & Lydia Ann Taylor m.1836][Martha (1854-1922) b.Brighton Sx to Samuel & Charlotte; related to LAG Strong the novelist*]
- Florence Lydia Soper b.Jan>Mar 1874; m.Oct>Dec 1899 both Greenwich (to either James Alfred Blakeley or ? ?)
- Percy Charles Soper b.Jul>Sep 1875 : ('91cen 16 builders ass [to father?]) : m.Ada Smith Jul>Sep 1902 both Greenwich; d.1939, age 65, (estate �11k)
- Robert Edwin Soper (1878-1933) 'Bertie' b. Deptford (b.Apr>Jun Greenwich) & m.Georgina Lucket Pool Apr>Jun 1901, Lewisham; Inspector, Post Office engineer dept
- Ethel Emily Soper (1880-1939) b.Oct>Dec Greenwich; '11cen 30unm
- Louie Annie Soper (1882-1972) b.Jan>Mar; m.Oct>Dec 1909, both Greenwich to Arthur William Atkinson
- Sidney Herbert Soper (1883-1953**) b.Apr>Jun Greenwich [from '91cen] : [unm labourer, English, sailed 3rd class, Liverpool to St John, Halifax, Canada 1908, on 'SS Victoria'] : carpenter, 71 Horton St, Transcona, Manitoba; b.16 Mar 1883 Lon; wife Alice : Reg Nr: 7222215; Attestatied 21 Mar 1916 at Winipeg, recommended for pioneer Overseas Expeditionary Force scan
- Eveline Soper b.c1886 Greenwich [not in bmd; age 5 from '91cen]
- Harold Soper b.Apr>Jun 1886 Greenwich; '11cen 25unm builders clerk
- Stanley George Soper (1888-1978) b.18 Aug Deptford [Greenwich RD]; architect; m.Henrietta Mabel Payne (1886-1967) 'Hetty'** Jul>Sep 1914 Greenwich**)
- Eveline Hilda Soper b.Oct>Dec 1890 Greenwich; unm executor to father 1936 (estate �32k)
- Dorothy Grace Soper (1892-1971) b.Oct>Dec Greenwich
: ['61cen, age 9, with parents Charles & Lydia, Deptford]
: '81cen Robert 30 painter at St Paul,�1 Cranbrook St, Deptford, Kent; Martha 27 b.Bighton, Sx; Florence 7; Percy C 5; Robert E 3; Ethel E 6m all b.Deptford
: [?a Robert brick manufacturer with stable of Bexley, Kt 1888 (horse stolen)]
: '91cen Robert 46 builder & decorator (employer) at Ravensbourne Rd, Greenwich, (Holy Trinity) Lon, Martha 37 b.Brighton, assumed children Florence 17, Percy 16 bulders assistant, Bertie 13, Ethel E 10, Louie A 9, Sidney 7 all b.Deptford, Kt Harold 5, Stanley 2, Eveline 5m all b.Greenwich; scan
: '01cen Robert 50 house builder (employer at home) at 158 St Johns Rd, Deptford, St Paul, Lon; Martha 47; Percy 25, Robert E 23 both builder's clerk (employees), Ethel 20, Louie 19, Sidney 17 clerk London docks all b.Deptford, Kt, Harold 15, Stanley 13; Evelina 10; Dorothy 8 all b.Greenwich, Lon (not Deptford as '11cen); scan
: '11cen Robert 60 builder in 10 rooms at 208 Lewisham High Rd, St Paul Deptford, Greenwich RD, Lon; b.Deptford, Lon; Martha 57 {m.37y 11 births, 10 alive) b.Brighton, Sx; Ethel E Soper 30; Harold 25unm builders clerk, Stanley George 22unm architect; Eveline H Soper 20unm Dorothy G Soper 18 & gen servant, Maud Brunton 22unm, all b.Deptford scan
: 1922 wife Martha d.Oct>Dec 1922 Greenwich age 69 : Robert rem.Mary Acton Jones (1853-1938) Jul>Sep 1924 Wandsworth*
: 1923 Robert Soper of 190 Lewisham High Rd [next of kin] when his brother Frederick James 65, destitute & homeless, was admitted to Woolwich Rd Workhouse, Greenwich 21 Feb 1923 & discharged at own request 22 Feb scan : C of E, single, painter of 2 Florence St scan
: 1930 R Soper, Wickham House, Westmoreland Rd, Bromley, 'Ravensbourne 4123', from 1930 to at least 1939 (not in 1945)
: 1936 Robert Soper d.22 Jul 1936, of Wickham House, Westmoreland Rd, Beckenham, Kent; probate Lon 19 Jan 1937 to Percy Charles Soper, builder, Eveline Hilda Soper, spinster, Arthur Thomas Dean, solicitors; estate �31,955 14s 6d; from Probate Calender, scan [Robert Soper (c1850-1936) d.Jul>Sep, Bromley, age 86]
: 1938 Mary Acton Soper d.12 Mar 1938, widow [what relation?] of Wickham House, Westmoreland Rd, Bromley; probate London 13 Jun 1938 to Percy Charles Soper, builder, Arthur Thomas Dean, solicitors, managing clerk; estate �2,732 18s 3d ; from Probate Calender, scan [d.1 Bromley Grove, Shortlands, Kt*; Mary A (c1853-1938) d.Jan>Mar, Bromley, age 85]
: 1939 Ethel Emily Soper d.30 Mar 1939, of Wickham House, Westmoreland Rd, Bromley, Kent; probate Lon 7 May 1939 to Arthur Thomas Dean, solicitors managing clerk; estate �5,642 18s 8d; from Probate Calender, scan [Ethel E (c1881-1939) d.Jan>Mar, Bromley, age 58]
: '39cen Dorothy G c39unm private secretary (b.27 Oct 1899) [but b.1892 above] at Wickham House, Westmoreland Rd, Beckenham, Kt; Eveline H c48unm insurance clerk (b.7 Nov 1890); also Louie A Atkinson b.15 Dec 1887 udd, widow & Molly Atkinson b.13 Sep 1910 Female S? School T? unm scan
: **family line in mundia.com - lost link & *family line in ourfamilyhistory
William b.1847 Chudleigh, Dev : bur 16 Apr 1887 Sheerness [age 40]) m.Mary b.17 Sept 1847 Minster, Sheppey d.1937 [age 89]: bur Sheerness) : GeneaNet.org : from researcher John Buchanan
? - Emma Charlotte Soper b. & d.Apr>Jun 1874 Sheppey, age 0
? - William Soper b. & d.Apr>Jun 1874 Sheppey, age 0
- Elizabeth Emma Soper b.Apr>Jun 1875 [Sheerness]; m.Apr>Jun 1900 both Sheppey District (to either Henry John Loveridge or Walter Henry Stacey)
- Charlotte Emma Soper b.Jan>Mar 1876 [Sheerness]; m.Frederick James Cumberland Oct>Dec 1899 both Sheppey Dist [see '01 below]
- William John Soper b.Jul>Sep 1877, Sheppey [, Sheerness] : Gunner, Royal Field Artillery 1902-6; m.Edith Singer Oct>Dec 1910 Sheppey
- ?Thomas George Soper b.Jan>Mar 1879; d.Jan>Mar 1879, age 0, both Sheppey
- James George Soper b.6 Jan 1880 Minster, Sheerness [b.Jan>Mar Sheppey]; labourer; Gunner, Field Artillery 1902-6, Invalided India; m.Edith Singer 1910 Sheppey
- Frederick Henry Soper b.19 Jan 1887 Sheerness [b.Jan>Mar Sheppey]; '11cen 24unm labourer HM dockyard, Sheppey; m.Edith F Sansom 1917 Brentford; '39cen widower; ??a Frederick H m.Mabel M Bagshaw Jul>Sep 1947, Sheppey [d.not vis]
- Edith Soper b.c1890; ['91cen b.'Tower St wakolos rh', Lon, age 1]
- ?Soper's 14 births by '11cen [8 suggested above]
- - grdau Maud Victoria S Soper b.Oct>Dec 1897, Sheppey, Kent [see '01/'11cen]; m.John W P Coles Jan>Mar 1922, Sheppey
: '81cen William 33 painter, laborer at 6 Drummond Ct, Minster, Sheerness; b.Chudleigh; Mary E 33; Elizabeth E 5; Charlotte 4; William J 3; James George 1 all b.Sheerness
: 1887 William d.Apr>Jun 1887 Sheppey, age 40
: '91cen Mary E 42 widow, self employed, laundress at 12 Sheppey St, Minster, Sheppey, Elizabeth E 15 nurse maid, Charlotte E 14, William J 13 cabin boy, James G 11, Frederic H 4 all b.Sheerness, Edith 1 b.'Tower St Waterloo RD, Lon : scan
: '01cen Mary E 52 widow, domestic at 3 Sheppey St, Sheerness, Kt; James G 21 labourer; Frederick H 14 factory boy dockyard all b.Sheerness; scan
: '01cen : William (c1878-?) able seaman, age 23unm, on Tug "Diligent" at Sheerness, Kent, b.Portsmouth, Hants) scan
: '01cen Maud V S Soper 3 with uncle Fredk J Cumberland 23 labourer in ship yard at 21 Hope St, Sheerness & wife Charlotte E Cumberland 25 all b.Sheerness : [dau or neice?? Maud Victoria S Soper b.Oct>Dec 1897, Sheppey see above] : [this site says F & C had no children & lived Sheerness '11cen : in '91cen Fredrick was at 21 Hope St with parents William & Elizabeth A source]
: 1902 family at 12 Sheppey St, Sheerness, Kent when son James enlisted & at?15 Albion Place, Harriss Rd, Sheerness on discharge 1906
: '11cen Mary Emma (c1848-?) 63 widowed head {m.38y, 14 births, 4 alive} in 2? rooms at 137 Hope St, Sheerness, Sheppey, Kent; son Frederick 24unm skilled labourer, rigger, HM Dockyard both b.Sheerness & grandau Maud Stacy 13 at school b.Sheerness scan
: 1937 Mary E Soper (c1848-1937) d.Apr>Jun 1937, age 89, Sheppey, Kent
: '11cen Alice Inkerman Soper 34unm childrens maid at 24 Chayne Court, Chelsea, Lon, b.Cliffe, Kent; servant to John Rowlinnson 44 architect, wife 53, dau 14 & 11 both at school scan
: an Alice I Soper d.Jan>Mar 1957 Surrey NE, age 82
- Thomas Rundle Soper b.Oct>Dec 1876, York (but '81cen 'b.Guilford') bpt.3 Jun 1880 Christchurch, Worthing: m.Sarah Jane Caddick at Hanover Sq, Lon, Jan>Mar 1908 a billiard marker : Pvt in Notts & Derbyshire Reg, WW1
- John Gilbert Soper b.26 Oct 1878 Guildford, Sy; bpt.3 Jun 1880 at Christchurch, Worthing; m.Florence Ford 21 Apr 1908, Cranfield, Beds ('01cen footman, Chelsea) a groom; '11cen butler 33; Lance Corporal in Sussex Reg d.1917 France WW1;
- Frank Soper b.Mar/Apr 1881 Worthing, Sx; bpt.26 Jun 1881 at Christchurch, Worthing, father a groom of Augusta Mews [b.not vis bmd]
- ? Soper.. by '11cen 5 births, 3 alive
: '61cen Elizabeth Soper, dau, married, a blacksmith's wife at Angmering, Sx 42 b.Monk Wearmouth, Durham & grandchildren Mary Soper 14, a servant; Thomas Soper 11, an ag Lab, both Angmering, Sx; Elizabeth Soper 5, a scholar b.Patching, Sx; Ann Soper 3 Plymouth, Dev; in household of father William Best 74, a painter b.Angmering; wife Mary Best 79 b.Monk Wearmouth, Durham son William Best 32, a painter b.Angmering : ['51cen not vis]
: '71cen ?a Thomas Soaper private 19, b.Arundel, Sx; at Strad Quarters 25th Reg, of Port Rowner, Gosport, Alverstoke : [HQ of 25th Reg at Fort Rowner (though www.palmerstonforts.org.uk/rga.htm say Fort Brockhurst), Gosport]
: 1880 family at 13 Gloucester Place, Christchurch, Sx when John bapt & Augusta Mews 1881 when Frank bapt
: '81cen Thomas 31 2nd groom N D lodger at West St, Storrington, Sx; b.Angmering, Sx; scan
: '81cen Annie 33 at rooms over Augusta Place Coach House, Broadwater, Sx, wife to absent groom, b.Dover, Kent & sons; William 6 b.York : Thomas E 4: John Gilbert 2 both b.Guilford : Frank 1 month b.Worthing, Sx. ; scan
: '91cen Thomas Rimble Soper 39 groom (employee) at 3 Queens Gardens, Eastbourne, Sx; b.Angmering, Sx; Annie 41 cook b.Crookham, Hants; William 16 footman (dom) b.Dover, Kent; Thomas R 14 errand boy (port) b.York, Yorks; John Gilbert 12 school b.Guildford, Sy also unm servants, housemaids Jane Wilding 25 b.Suffolk, Elizabeth Sayers 25 b.Lon & Susan Atkins 18 b.Margate, Kent scan : [next door a lodging house keeper]
: '91cen son William 16 hall boy at Meads Rd, (Meads Court), Eastbourne (St Johns), b.Dover, Kt; with Edith H & Muriel Campbell, 17 & 12 & set of servants Butler 32, school governess 30, footman 29, nurse 58, housemaid 19 & 22, kitchenmaid ; scan : [not vis '01/'11cen]
: '01cen Thomas 51 horse keeper at 10 Passmore St, St George Hanover Sq, Lon, b.Angmering, Sx; Annie 53 b.Crockham, Hants & boarders Theresa Feeney 50unm dom serv b.Dublin, Ire; Joy Tresser 36unm dom serv b.Inverness & Edith A Wilson 31 b.Pimlico, Lon; scan scan
: '01cen son Thomas 23 billiard marker* 1 of 72 servants & 20 visitors at Junior Constitutional Club, 101 & 104 Piccadilly, St George Hanover Sq, M.sex; b.York; scan a b & c
: '01cen son John G 22unm domestic footman at 40 Cadogan Sq, Chelsea, Lon; b.Guildford, Surrey; with 3 housemaids 19-62 & governess 42 scan
: '11cen Thomas R Soper (c1849-?) 62 horse keeper (employee) in 2 rooms at 10 Passmore St, Sloane Sq, SW, St George; b.Angmering, Sx; Annie 64 {m.37y, 5 births, 3 alive} b.Winchfield, Hants; scan
: '11cen son Thomas Rundle Soper 34 head billiard marker in 2 rooms at 22 Ranleigh Rd, Pimlico, St George, Lon; b.York City & wife Sarah Jane 35 {m.3y, 0 births} b.Brownhills, Staffs scan
: 1915, Family address Passmore St, Sloane Sq, SW Lon, when son John enlisted : John Gilbert Soper 3rd son of Thomas Rundle Soper of Passmore St, Slone Sq ext; from De Ruvigny's Roll of Honour 1914-18
: Thomas Rundle Soper; on Westminster Electoral List 1923-37 at 10 Passmore St, 1930 scan [father or son or both?]; [an Ethel Maud Soper at address 1931-3]
: ?a Annie Soper (c1847-1929) d.Jan>Mar 1929, age 82, Chelsea, Lon
: ?a Thomas R Soper (c1850-1929) d.Apr>Jun 1929, age 79, Chelsea
: *co-incidence? a Thomas 36 'keeping billiard hall', Illinois, USA at b.Eng, parents b.Eng; 1880 census
: '81cen Frederick H 30 Lance Sergt,�Royal Marine Light Infantry at 3 Guildford Ter, Walmer, Kent; b.Charlton, Hants; Eliza E 22 b. Lyndhurst, Hants : [Guildford Rd leads to Walmer Castle; (Oct 1878 a 700ft wide tornado hit Walmer)] : [RMLI site shows his regiment all at at Walmer & Chatham Barracks, Kent in '81cen & Aug 1882 Reg posted to Egypt]
: Eliza Emily Soper (c1859-1885) d.Apr>Jun 1885, Eastry, Kent, age 26
: ['91/'01cen neither vis (either as FH or HF)]
: Henry Frederick Soper m.Jane Emma Redsull Jan>Mar 1892, Eastry; no children
: '11cen Henry Frederick 40 pensioner, Royal Marines in 6 rooms at 95 College Rd, Deal, (Eastry dist), Kent b.Andover, Hants; Jane Emma 47 {m.19y, no births} b.Deal, Kent; & boarders Lucy Lowlinson 62 widow {m42y, 9 births, 7 alive} b.Hucknal, Notts & Lottie Lowlinson 7 school b.Nottingham scan
: Henry F Soper (c1851-1930) d.Jul>Sep 1930, Eastry, age 79
: '39cen Jane E 75 widow, unpaid dom duties (b.13 Mar 1864) at 'Buller Villa' 95 College Rd, Deal, Kt; also John J Redsull b.2 Sep 1861 boot & shoemaker, widowed scan
: ?a Jane E Soper (1864-1944) d.Jan>Mar 1944, Thanet, Kent, age 79
- Henry E Soper 13 newspaper vender, living & b.Deptford, Kent '61cen, Charles Soper 46 & Lydia 46
- Henry E Soper 24 Lodger at Croydon, Surrey, b.Deptford, Kent : '71cen
- a Henry Edwin Soper m.Annetta Whiteman July>Sept 1872 St George, Hanover Sq, Lon
- Henry Soper 34 b.Deptford greengrocer at 2 Tanner Hill, Deptford, children 3, 5 & 7 : '81cen
: '61cen ?a George 25unm labourer at railway station living at Naggs Head Inn, Hastings, Sx (St Mary Magdalen); b.-, Sussex : in household of William Cole 53 innkeeper, wife & general servant, with 8 male lodgers, mostly labourers on railway scan : [??a George b.c1836 Herstmonceux, Sx John m.Rachel Colman 1834, at Sx]
: assume William Robert Soper b.Oct>Dec 1844 Greenwich ?bpt.3 Dec 1854 at St Paul, Deptford [to Charles Thomas & Lydia Ann who m.1836]
- Harry Soper b.Oct>Dec 1867, Greenwich, Lon; an army pensioner; m.Mary Ellen b.Ireland; m.Dublin, Ireland 1891
- William John Soper b.Oct>Dec 1870, Greenwich
- Charles Soper b.Jan>Mar 1873, Greenwich
- Eleanor Soper b.Jul>Sep 1878, Greenwich
- Jessie Soper b.Oct>Dec 1880, Greenwich
: ['61cen Charles 46, sawyer sharpener at 4 Knolls Terrace, St Paul, Deptford, Kt, b.Sheerness, Kent; Lydia 36 b.Gillingham, Kt; Charles T 24 electric telegraph club; George H 18 porter, parcel delivery company, both b.Sheerness; William R 15 printer labourer; Henry E 13 newspaper vender ; Emma 11; Robert 9, both scholars; Frederick 5 all b.Deptford]
: ['71cen William painter 26, b.Deptford; at 37 Adolphus St, Deptford, St Paul; Mary A 25, b.Deptford; Harry 3; William 6m all b.Deptford; 2nd household in property with Eliza Godley 30 wife of an engineer dau 5 & 1 & brother 18 a painter]
: [William Robert & Mary Ann's home & grocers shop, 6 Tanner's Hill, burgled 1879]
: [of 6 Tanner's Hill, bankruptcy 1883]
: ['91cen William R 46 at 106 Tanners Hill, (St John), Deptford, St Paul, Lon '91cen; Mary A 45; Charles 18; Eleanor 12; Lilly 8; Arthur 5 all b.Deptford, Kt; scan]
: ['01cen William 56 at house securator, Mary 55 at Camberwell, Lon]
: [William Robert d.1902, age 57 husband [d.Apr>Jun 1902 Southwark] : Mary Ann d.1920, age 74 wife; Alice Ward Soper d.1945 age 72 wife; Charles Soper d.1948, age 75 'mother'?? : Memorial Inscriptions Ladywell & Brockley Cemetery, Lewisham, NW Kent; source]
: [co-incidence? a William Robert m.Mary Ann Woodward Oct>Dec 1895 Marylebone]
- Joseph Edwin Soper b.8 Oct 1888 Deptford [b.Oct>Dec Greenwich reg dist]; railway messenger age 14 (below); m.Eliza George 1915
- Florence Louise Soper b.Oct>Dec 1890 (b.Deptford), Greenwich; '11cen dom serv; ?a Florence L m.Ernest A Bond Jul>Sep 1914, Greenwich
- Alfred Ernest Soper b.Apr>Jun 1893 (b.Deptford) Greenwich bmd dist; [?b.8 Mar 1893, railway engine cleaner; in WW1; 1921 Royal Tank Corp; m.Louisa J Snell 1918, Greenwich
- Alice Maria Soper b.Apr>Jun 1895 (b.Deptford), Greenwich '11cen dom serv 16
- Kate Eliza Soper b.Oct>Dec 1897 (b.Deptford), Greenwich
- William Soper b.Apr>Jun 1902 (b.Deptford), Greenwich (all which inc.Deptford)
: '81cen
: Joseph Ernest carpenter, joined London, Brighton & S.Coast Railway in 31 Dec 1881; age 18, b.c1862/3, carpenter; wage 2s 8d; at New Cross; engineer dept register; to 5s pd Dec'91, New Cross; scan1 & 2 : [father, railway clerk for 35y]
: '91cen Joseph E 27 carpenter & joiner at 48 Hunsdon Rd, (All Saints), Deptford, St Paul, Lon; b.Brighton, Sx; Charlotte E 30 b.Eltham, Kent; Joseph E 2; Florence L Soper 6m both b.New Cross, Kent; scan
: '01cen Joseph E 37 carpenter at 28 Ludwick Rd, Deptford, St Paul; b.Brighton, Sx; Charlotte E 40 b.Eltham, Kt; Joseph E 12, Florence 10, Alfred E 8 & Alice M 5, Kate Eliza 3 both b.New Cross; scan
: 1903 Joseph Edwin railway messenger joined London, Brighton & S.Coast 6 Mar 1903, age 14, Time Bill Office; recommended by school b.8 Oct 1888; wage 8s pw; to 10s Jan 05; to 12s Dec 05; at Anerley; porter, Brockley Dec'05 16s Jul'06 Brockley Station (S of L.Bridge), Lon; scan1, 2, 3, 4
: '11cen Joseph Ernest 47 carpenter LBSC railway in 4 rooms at 28 Ludwick Rd, Woodpecker Rd, Greenwich; b.Brighton, Sx; Charlotte Eliza 49 housewife b.Eltham, Kt; Alfred Ernest 18 baker's assistant; Kate Eliza 13 & William 8 both at school, all b,Deptford, Lon scan
: '11cen ?a Joseph E (c1889-) Ordinary Seaman 22unm on "Inflexible", 1st Cruiser Sdr, Howth Head, Overseas, Royal Navy; Ireland (at sea, lat 53.28N Lon 5.37W) scan
: '11cen Florence L 21unm general domestic servant in a 6 room flat at 29 Sandringham Court, Maida Vale; b.New Cross, Lon; servant to Louis Schonfeld 56 company director b.Rockfort, USA, wife Elen {m.18y} b.Lon scan
: '11cen Alice Maria 16 general domestic servant in 6 rooms at 87 Endwell Rd, Brockley; b.Deptford, Lon servant to Frank Waters 32 box exporter, wife & 4 children 4-10 all b.Deptford scan
: 1912 son Alfred E *b.5 or 8 Mar 1893, appointed cleaner, Loco Dept, New Cross, London, Brighton & S.Coast Railway; 15 Jan 1912 wage 2s 2d to 3s 9d; Sep'19 3s 9d to 7s; Jul'21 to 9s 6d, all scan1, 2, 3 & 4
: 1914 Joseph Ernest Soper carpenter. joined Railway Workers Union, New Cross 2 Branch, Kent, L B & S G, scale B, 1914 scan & rejoined 1919, labourer, scale D; left P F, Jan 1931 scan
: 1928 ?a Joseph E d.Jan>Mar 1928, Depford, age 63
; Joseph E 76m carpenter & joiner - retired (b.5 Aug 1863) scan
: '39cen Charlotte E 78m unpaid domestic duties & dom work (b.26 Nov 1860) at 28 Ludwick Rd, Deptford, London
: '39cen Joseph E 76m carpenter & joiner, retired (b.5 Aug 1863) at 28 Ludwick Rd, Deptford, Lon; Charlotte E 78m unpaid dom duties & dom work (b.26 Nov 1860) scan
: 1957 ?a Charlotte E d.Jan>Mar 1952, Depford, age 90
- Ellen Soper 'Nellie', b.Jan>Mar 1890, Chislehurst (Bromley R Dist) '11cen dom serv 21
- Louisa Soper 'Louie', b.Oct>Dec 1891, Chislehurst (Bromley RD) '11cen dom serv 19
??a William Charles E Soper b & d.Oct>Dec 1893, Bromley RD, age 0 : [a 5th child had died by '11cen; but 3 1st names seems inconsistant]
- Esther Florence Soper b.Jul>Sep 1895, Chislehurst (Bromley RD); '11cen gen dom serv 15
- Emily Jane Soper 'Jane', b.Apr>Jun 1899, Chislehurst (Bromley RD)
: children Frederick c1885 & Ellen c1890
: '71cen William ag lab 52; Ellen laundress 40; William 13; Charlotte 10; Emily 8 & Fanny 6 at Up Park Rd, Prickend, Chislehurst, all b.Chis. source
: '91cen Wiliam gardener 35 Chiselhurst source
: Wiliam gardener 1900 at 9 Park Rd, Chiselhurst; with wife Jane Elizabeth; Ellen, Louisa, Esther & Emily [from army record below]
: Wiliam (1857-?) Bombadier, nr.9184 Royal Field Artillery 1900-01; 43y 11m; [so b.May 1857; enlistment push for Boar War : promotion & tattoo shows he returned] 5ft 4�in; 146lbs; 34in chest, expands 2in; fresh complexion; brown eyes; brown hair; C of E; "Soper" & crossed flags right forearm; Field gun left forearm; a gardener, b.Chiselhurst, Kt; m.Jane Elizabeth Driscoll, [m.Jul>Sep 1889, Bromley, Kent] spinster Bromley, Kt 12 Aug 1889, withnesses John & Emily Mears; wife Jane Elizabeth, 9 Park Rd, Chiselhurst; with parents Ellen, Louisa, Esther & Emily; Attested & Medical 18 Apr 1900 Woolwich; to serve 1y at home; previously served in Royal Reg of Artillery; Royal Horse Art; 'H' Bat, Royal Field Art (time expired); 2nd class cert of education 13 May 1884; Range finder class 1 Jul 1886; Joined Brighton 19 Apr 1900, Driver; Posted, civil life & promoted Br 19 Apr 1900; Discharged on Termination of Engagement 17 Apr 1901 (service 1y 0d) army record
: '01cen William C 45 private soldier, Royal Reserves at 4 Park Rd, Chislehurst, Kent; b.Chislehurst, Kent; brother-in-law with John Mears 38 domestic coachman b.Althorpe, Northamptonshire; wife Emily 38 laundress & son William 12 both b.Chislehurst, Kt scan : [John Mears witnessed William's m]
: '01cen duplicate? William (c1857-?) Bombardier, Royal Field Artillery 44 father, at Preston Barracks, Lewes Rd, (St Peter), Brighton, Sussex, b.Chislehurst, Kent; (378 NCOs & men, 48 wives & 12 officers) scan a; b; c; d
: '01cen Jane 44 married at St Peter, Kent; b.Toerestore, Kent; & grdau Ellen 11, b.Sandwich, Kt; Louie 8; Esther 5; Jane 2, b.Chislehurst, Kt with parents John Driscoll 66 sawyer& wife Susannah 64 both b.Folkestone, Kt; scan
: '11cen William (c1857-?) 54 general builders labourer in 3 rooms at 9 Peckham Terrace, Eltham, [Lewisham RD], Lon; b.Chislehurst, Kt; Jane 53 {m.23y, 5 births, 4 alive} b.Folkstone, Kent, Nellie 21unm, Louisa 19unm, Jane 12 all b.Chislehurst scan
: '11cen Esther Florence 15 gen dom servant in 7 rooms at 5 The Parade, New Eltham; b.Chislehurst, Kt; servant to Edwin Cook 26 master baker b.Eltham Kt, Frances 24 {m.2y, 1 birth}, dau 1, visitor Mary Jane Edwards 46 widow, housekeeper & servant Dan Tatteshall 23unm baker b.Dor scan
: 1938 Jane E Soper (c1857-1938) d.Jul>Sep 1938, Bromley, Kent, age 81
: '39cen ?a William C 81 widower, gardener (retired) (b.9 Mar 1858) at Radcliffe Convalescent Home, The Chart, Godstone, Sy scan
: 1939 ?a William Soper (c1857-1939) d.Jan>Mar 1939, Surrey S E, Surrey, age 82 : [no WCS d.vis bmd]
: Henry Soper d.28 Jun 1890 house decorator & house agent of Tunbrdge Wells; died TW; will Principle Registry 2 Aug 1890 to Louisa Soper widowed wife, Horace Whiteman Waller, solicitors managing clerk, Isaac Janes of little Marlow, Bucks, house steward, 3 of the executors; estate �3,302 5s 1d ; from Probate Calender, scan
Rev Henry Soper minister of Wesleyan Methodist Chapels in Thanet, Marston, St.Lawrence & Broadstairs in 1890. He lived at 19 Hardres Street, Ramsgate : source : biog
: ['91cen an Edith Soper 1 at 91 Rose St, Sheerness, Sheppey, b.Tower St, Waterloo RD, London, with grandparents George 46 & Mary Piper 55, dock labourer, living & born I of S; scan]
- Edith Mary Soper b.Oct>Dec 1889, Southwark, St Saviour, Lon
: '01cen, 38 Thorpe St, Lambeth, London, with widowed father James 43 a hosier cutter, b.Sheerness; Edith M 11; Alice C 10; William G 8 all b.Lambeth : [bmd births St Saviour, Lon ; Edith Mary Soper Oct>Dec 1889 : Alice Charlotte Soper Jan>Mar 1891 : William George Soper Oct>Dec 1892)]
: ['61cen James 3 with family, William 48 b.Drewsteignton recently moved from Chudleigh, Devon, a dock labourer at Minster, I of S, Charlotte & 4 other children b.Devon]
: ['71cen, family still at Minster]
: ['81cen parents back in Devon but James not visable (presumably in Navy '81 & '91cen : see seaman James b.1859)]
Frances F Soper (c1865-?) 26 'friend' b.Chiselhurst, in Chiselhurst household of Alfred Rowe 63 b.Upminster, Essex, wife Eliza 62 b.Limehouse & dau Minnie 20 b.Chiselhurst scan : [ assume b.'Fanny F' b.1862]
'71cen Ellen 4 scholar, b.N.Stoneham with parents Charles farm lab 46, b.Uphusband; at Portswood, S.Stoneham; Eliza 40 b.Michelmarsh; James 11; Charles 7 all scholars scan
'81cen Ellen 15unm dom servant at beer shop at Twyford, Hants with George 64 & Jane Barnes 69
'01cen Ellen 34unm housekeeper domestic at Daleside, Woolwich Road, Erith, Belvedere, Kent, b.Stoneham, Hants; servant to Henry S Atkins 69 widower b.Underwriter Clerkenwell, Lon & son James 39 1862 assist sec ins co, b.Hackney, Lon; cook 22unm & housemaid 17 scan; [not vis '11cen; ??an Ellen m.Apr>Jun 1910, S.Stoneham (William Cousens or Thomas Viney)]
: '01cen Robert 29 imbecile at Darenth Asylums, Darenth, Kt; b.-; 1,090 patients; no patient on page had place of birth; scan, a, b
: ??so not Robert Soper (c1884-1913), died at sea age 19 on 'The Guard' from UK Deaths in Findmypast.com : [a Robert's death registered Apr>Jun 1913 at Pembroke, age 18]
: assume : William m.Frances Jane Harris; [birth or m.not vis bmd; '71/'81cen not vis]
: William Donton Soper (c1841-1895) d.Jan>Mar 1895, Blean, Kent, age 54
: '01cen ?William 60 shipwright at 49 George St, East Stonehouse, Dev; b.Cawsand, Cornwall; scan [but birthplace different : William's death not vis bmd]
: '01cen Frances 55 widowed charwoman at Lower Island, Whitstable Urban, Kent; with unm brother John Harris 48 gen labourer & Clara Goldsmith 15 dressmaker's apprentice all b.Whitstable scan
: Frances Jane Soper (c1844-1909) d.Oct>Dec 1909, Blean, Kt
- Violet Elizabeth Soper b.Jan>Mar 1894, Dartford, Kent
- Blanche Marion Soper b.Jul>Sep 1895, Medway, Kent
: 1888 A Soper (c1866 - ) joined Boilermakers & Iron Shipbuilders Union, Devonport Branch, Dev 22 Aug 1888, age 22; scan
: 1890 A W Soper (c1865 - ) joined Boilermakers & Iron Shipbuilders Union, Chatham Branch, Kent; 24 May 1890, age 25; P. 2nd Cut?; scan & 14 Dec 1895, age 29; R 3 May 1911; scan
: '91cen Alfred W 34unm boarder boiler maker (employee) at 25 Goodwin Terrace, Gillingham, New Brompton, Kt; b.Stoke, Dev boarding with Charles Jenner 58 retired rigger b.Sy, wife 57 b.Scot, son 19 & dau 16 : scan : [assume age 24 not 34]
: '01cen Alfred W (c1867-?) 34 boiler maker in 3 rooms at 81 Beryl Rd, Fulham, Lon; b.Devonport, Morice Town, Dev; Louise M 31 b.New Brompton, Kt; Violet E 7 b.Greenhithe, Kt; Blanche M 5 b.New Brompton, Kt; scan [none vis '11cen]
: 1902 ?W Soper (c1851-?) age 51 & 2 girls V Soper 8 & B Soper 6, sailed from Southampton to East London, S.Africa, 1902 : from findmypast.com : [??only V in bms a Violet Eveline Soper b.Jan>Mar 1885 Guildford, Sy, 3 Violets 6 & 7 in '01cen at Preston Candover, Hants; Lingfield, Sy & Violet Soper 7 at Fulham b.Greenhithe, Kt : The only B b.1895-7 Blanche Marion Soper b.Jul>Sep 1895 Medway, Kent, ('01cen at Fulham 5 b.New Brompton, Kent) - but no 50 year old W in Fulham '01cen]
: '11cen son 21 at [21 Paignton/Bridge/Mary], Totnes, Dev, an able seaman, navy man; b.Erith
: '11cen William John 40 at (45 Ladywell/School/Rd), Lewisham, Lon a fishmonger manager; Caroline 39 both b.Kent; Jessie 14; Harold 12 at school; Reginald 8 b.Peckham, all b.Surrey; Leonard 6; Dorothy 3 & Elsie 1 all b.Kent
JHO Soper b.28 May 1866, Langley Burrell, Wilts, parents Rev Henry & Elizabeth Soper; became a foreman (carriage builder) at the South East & Chatham Railway Works, Ashford, Kent. [from PD]
- Owen Norman Soper b.Oct>Dec 1896 W.Ashford : [a soldier] m.Lydia A M Rowland/Howland Apr>Jun 1932 W. Ashford
- Edward Cyril Soper b.Apr> Jun 1904 W.Ashford : [killed 24 Mar 1942, WW2 bombing raid]
: '91cen Owen Soper 24unm railway coach builder lodging at 2 Stanley Villas, Christ Church Road, Ashford, Kt, b.Chippenham, Wilts, lodging with Mark Salmon 35 carpenters labourer b.Ashford, wife Emma 30 b.Ely, Cambs, dau Fanny 12 b.Clerkenwell & boarder John C Beadle 17 pupil to carriage builder b.Erith, Kt : scan
: '01cen James 34 foreman railway coach builders at 134 Beaver Rd, Ashford, Kt; b.Chippenham, Wilts; Maria 26; Owen 4 both b.Ashford; scan
: '11cen James Henry Owen (c1867-?) 44 foreman, Railway Co's Carriage Works in 6 rooms at 136 Beaver Rd, Ashford, b.Chippingham, Wilts; Maria Harriet 36 {m.16y, 2 births, both alive}; Owen Norman 14; Edward Cyril 7 all b.Ashford, Kent & wife's mother Hannah Francis Jenner 77 widow, private means b.Hackney, M.sx scan
: 1914 James H O Soper deputy for Ashford (1188 gross membership, Independant & State) at Oddfellows AMC at Aberystwyth [a friendly society (Annual Moveable Conference)] ; 960 dlegates; Cambrian News 6 Jun 1914 scan
: 1931 James Henry Owen Soper d.7 Dec 1931 of 136 Beaver Rd, Ashford, Kent; administration Lon 16 Feb 1931 to Maria Harriet Soper, widow; estate �729 5s; from Probate Calender, scan [James H O Soper (c1866-1931) d.Oct>Dec, W.Ashford, age 65]
: '39cen Maria Harriett 65 widow, unpaid dom duties (b.6 Mar 1874) at 136 Beaver Rd, Ashford, Kent; Edward Cyril 35unm, garage attendant (mechanic) (b.3 May 1904); 3rd line temp withheld & Arnold H Lovell b.5 Aug 1926 'B26' at school scan
: 1943 Edward Cyril Soper of 136 Beaver Rd, Ashstead; a civilian died WW2 on 24 Mar 1943 at Stanhays, Godinton Rd Ashford War Memorial. The Ashford memorial lists about 51 civilians who died that day & night : roll-of-honour.com, 76 badly wounded; see
: 1943 Edward C Soper (c1904-1943) d.Jan>Mar 1943, Ashford, Kent, age 39
: 1955 Marie H Soper (c1875-1955) d.Jan>Mar 1955, Ashford, age 80
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Henry Coles Soper, the Glebe, Lee, Kent (a commisioner for granting land tax?) (London Gazette 4 Aug 1893) : ['71cen above]
Private A Soper (?-1900) died of disease in Harrismith, 28 Dec 1900 : reported in The Times of 2 Jan 1901, as 1 of 29 casualties from disease, giving his number as 2323, 2nd Royal West Kent Regiment : 2 other welsh brothers fought & survived
Pvt A Soper Guardian paper, 2 Jan says he died of enteric fever, Harrismith
- Elizabeth Annie Soper b.Jan>Mar 1902, Greenwich, Lon
- Lucy May Soper b.Jan>Mar 1904, Greenwich, Lon
: '01cen an Edwin 24 machine hand labourer in 3 rooms at 25 Furzefield Rd, Greenwich, Lon; b.Blackheath Village S E; Elizabeth 20 b.Marsh Gibbon, Bucks with visitors Lucy Parker 22unm & dau Layer Parker 8 both b.Marsh Gibbon, Bucks; scan : [not vis '11cen]
: '11cen Mr Soper 34 greengrocer & general shop (self employed) in 5 rooms at 1 Furzefield Rd, Blackheath, SE Lon, b.Blackheath, Kent; Mrs Soper 30 b.Marsh Gibbon, Bucks; Elizabeth; 9; Lucy 7 both b.Blackheath & sister Lydia Parker 18unm b.Marsh Gibbon scan
: 1925 Lucy May Soper (c1904-?) age 21, sailed from London to Gibraltar, 1925 : from findmypast
: '39cen Edwin H 62 married, steel works labourer (b.13 Mar 1877) at 9 Montcalm Rd, Greenwich, Lon & Elizabeth 58m home duties (b.2 Jan 1881) scan & scan b
: 1966 Edwin H Soper (1878-1966) d.Jan>Mar 1961, Greenwich, age 88
: '11cen ?a Robert Soper (c1875-?) 36unm tailor, patient at 'London Orad', Swanley Junction [now 'Swanley' nr.Sevenoaks - 3 hospitals for Londoners away from smog], Dartford '11cen, b.not known scan : [?a Robert 44 d.Oct>Dec 1918 Dartford, age 44]
? - Edith Winifred G Soper b.Jan>Mar 1902, Greenwich [??speculate sister solely from similar name to above] m.John C L Dallimore Apr>Jun 1930 Brighton, Sx
- Robert Edwin S Soper (1903-1987) 'Edwin' b.6 May 1903 (b.Apr>Jun), Greenwich Ethel M Hoole; m.Jul>Sep 1925, Bournemouth*; '39cen 36 electrical engineer telephone cable ; d.Southampton
- Sybil Hilda I Soper (1905-1986) b.29 Jun [b.Jul>Sep], Greenwich; d.Gloucester*
- Denis Courtney Soper b.Oct>Dec 1907, Greenwich; post office engineer; RAF; m.Brigid Bonar 1929
- Kathleen Blanche D Soper b.Jan>Mar 1909 Fulham (added from*) ?a Kathleen B m.Cecil J Cowdrey Jan>Mar 1938 Basingstoke
:'81cen Robert E 3 with parents Robert painter 30 at 1 Cranbrook St, Deptford & Martha 27 b.Bighton, Sx
: '01cen 23 a builders clerk at Deptford, St Paul; b.Deptford, Kt
: '11cen Robert Edwin 33m civil servant, constructional engineer, engineer dept, Post Office, Lon; at 52 Steade Rd, Sharrow, Sheffield, Yorks {8 rooms}; b.Deptford, Kt in a boarding house, also a PO electrical engineer 33 b.Brixton scan
: '11cen Georgina 34 {m.10�y, 4 births; 4 alive} 'wife' in 5 rooms at 73 Africa Rd, Brockley, Lon; Kathleen 9; Edwin 7; Sybill 5; Denis 3 all b.Brockley, Lon & m-in-law Sarah Pool 74 widow b.Margate, Kent & boarder William Charles Dexter 24unm lithographic artist b.Nottingham scan
: Robert Edwin Soper, GWR Pension Fund Record between 1880 & 1956 : Wilts Archive 2515/350/27271
: (father not son?) Robert Edwin Soper, inspector, Engineering Department : Post Office : Civil Service appointments (London Gazette 1 Oct 1912: Robert E appointed inspector, senior, Oct 1912, Engineer Prov Dept; Post Office Records scan
: 1919 Robert Edwin Soper nr.182736 Sapper, Imperial Signal Coy, RE, East Africa; Home address, 14 Leamington Rd, Bournemouth; on Absent Voters List 1919 scan
: 1933 Robert Edwin Soper d.15 Feb 1933, of 64 Broxbourne Rd, Orpington, Kent; d.Cray Valley Hospital, St Pauls, Cray, Kent; administration London 12 Apr 1933 to Georgina Luckett Soper, widow; estate �2,540 1s 10d ; from Probate Calender, scan [Robert E Soper d.Jan>Mar 1933 Bromley, Kt, age 54]
: '39cen Georgina L 61 widow, private means (b.28 Feb 1878) at 64 Broxbourne Rd, Orpington, Kt; Sybil H S 34unm secretary (b.29 Jun 1905); both with Ella K Simpson b.16 Aug 1893 bank clerk, unm scan : [??a Georgina L d.Jan>Mar 1958, age 80 at Statton, Con]
: (a 2nd Robert Edwin b.1874 Lewisham; m. 1894, a butler/waiter)
: *death dates from his line on Mundia; photo on Ancestry.com
Frank W Sopper, 2nd Lieutenant, 18th Hussars Boar War Soldier ['81cen a Frank W Sopper 1, b.Streatham, Surrey at 122 Upper Tulse Hill, Streatham, parents William 27 member of The London Stock Exchange & Sarah A]
- Norman Percy Soper b.Jul>Sep 1903, Lewisham, Lon; m.Vera L A Rawlings Jan>Mar 1928, Camberwell, Lon : [to Oz after see]; bank clerk : [but in visited Kent Aug 1939, see '39cen below]
- Ralph Robert Soper (1906-95) b.Jan>Mar 1906, Lewisham; [officer WW2]; accountant; d.1995 Prince Edwards Island, Canada*
: '01cen family at Deptford, Robert 50 a house builder, Martha 47 & assumed children Percy 25, Robert 23 both builder's clerk, Ethel 20, Louie 19, Sidney 17 clerk London docks all b.Deptford, Harold 15, Stanley 13; Evelina 10; Dorothy 8 all b.Greenwich (not Deptford as '11cen)
: '11cen Percy 35 builders foreman (contractor, worker) in 8 rooms at Rosemont, 13 Honor Oak Park, Lewisham, Lon; Ada 29 {m.8y, 2 births, both alive} both b.Depford, Kent; Norman 7; Ralph 5 both b.Brockley, Kent scan
: 1939 Percy; executor to father 1936 (�32k); Executor to Mary Acton Soper [what relation?] 1938 (�2.7k) & sister Ethel 1939 (�5.6k)
: 1939 Percy Charles Soper d.18 Sep 1939, of 62 Broxbourne Rd, Orpington, Kent; probate Lon 23 Apr 1939 to Norman Percy Soper, bank clerk, Ralph Robert Soper, accountant; estate �10,641 11s 1d ; from Probate Calender, scan (d.Jul>Sep, Bromley, age 65)
: '39cen Ada 57 widow unpaid dom duties (b.22 Jun 1882) at 62 Broxbourne Rd, Orpington, Kt; Norman P 35 bank officer (b.15 Nov 1903); Vera L A 35 unpaid domestic duties (b.31 Jul 1904), both married; lines 4 & 5 temp withheld scan
: 1950 Ada Soper housewife 68 sailed tourist class on "Mooltan", London to Adelaide, Aust 4 Oct 1950; 62 Broxbourne Rd; Last residence Eng; Future residence Aust; scan : [son Norman to Oz 1833]
: 1953 Mrs A Soper housewife 71 on "Orion", Lon to Adelaide, 23 Feb 1953 62 Broxbourne Rd; Last & future home Eng; scan
: 1960 Ada S Soper d.Oct>Dec 1960 Thanet RD, age 81 (bmd) [b.Rotherhithe 1882]
: a family tree on mundia
- Wilfred Arthur Soper b.Jul>Sep 1904 E.Ashford, Kt; m.Alice S Thompson Apr>Jun 1929 Malling, Kt
- Leslie Ernest Soper b.9 Feb 1906 Fareham, Hants [b.Jan>Mar]; bus conductor; m.Elizabeth C Mankelow Oct>Dec 1934 Tonbridge; Leslie F b.Jan>Mar 1936, Tonbridge (mother nee Makelow); Frederick J b.Jan>Mar 1937, Tonbridge (m.ne.Mankelm)
- Frederick James Soper b.Oct>Dec 1907 Farnham, Sy; Frederick J d.Jan>Mar 1931, age 23, Tonbridge
- Leonard John Soper b.20 Dec 1908; b.reg,Jan>Mar 1909 Farnham; m.Nancy M [Cornhill?] bef.1936; '39cen motor driver
- Gladys M[ay] Soper b.Jul>Sep 1910; d.Jan>Mar 1933, age 22, both Tonbridge
: '91cen James 59 ag lab (employee) at Wild Moor, Sherfield Upon Loddon, Hants; Emma 53; Charles 26 garden lab (employee); John 15 agricultural labourer; Mary Ann 13; Arthur 8; Albert Edward 7 all scholars all b.Sherfield Upon Loddon, Hants; scan
: '01cen ?an Arthur 19unm domestic footman at 2 Rose Brac, Rose Ln, Allerton, Lancs; b.Hants; lodging with James Mather 37 gardener domestic b.Cheshire, Kate 33 b.Westmorland, son 6 & Mary Mather 63 b.Wales scan
: '11cen Arthur (c1881-?) 30 confectioner & tobacconist (self employed at home) in 6 rooms at The Broadway, Hadlow (Tonbridge Dist), Kt, b.Sherfield nr.Basingstoke, Hants; Bertha 27 {m.8y, 6 births, all alive} b.Tenterton, Kent; Wilfred Arthur 7 b.Ashford, Kt; Leslie Ernest 6 b.Fareham, Hants; Frederick James 4 b.Farnham, Surrey; Leonard John 3 b.Ash, Surrey; Gladys May 8m b.Hadlow, Kent; & brother John 36 gardener (domestic) b.Sherfield scan
: '39cen Arthur 58 hair dresser (b.25 Jun 1881) at Cleveley, Carpenters Ln, Tonbridge, Kt; Bertha 54 unpaid dom duties (b.8 Feb 1885) scan
: '39cen Leslie E 33 omnibus conductor 'm & d' (b.9 Feb 1906) at 'Ross', Maidstone Rd, Malling, Kt; Elizabeth C 35 unpaid dom duties (b.29 Nov 1903); lines 3 & 4 temp withheld scan
: 1953 ?a Bertha R Soper (c1884-1953) d.Jul>Sep 1953 Hastings, Sx, age 69
: 1953 ?an Arthur Soper (c1881-1953) d.Jul>Sep 1953 Hastings, Sx, age 72
: '71 William J 40 at Lock's Bottom, Farnborough, Kt, Elizabeth 39, Rosa 10, Alice 6, Earines [Ernest?] 3, Albert 19m (kids b.Downs) scan
: '81 a labourer 52 at 14 Skelliter Cotts, Southlands Rd, Bromley, Elizabeth 49, Ernest 13, Albert 11, Frank 6 & William 3
: '91cen Ernest W 25unm footman dom servant� at Imperial Hotel, Park Hill Rd, Tormoham, Dev; b.Downe, Kt; page of servants [assume of hotel guests], mostly ladies maids scan
: '01cen Ernest C Soper 36 domestic butler at 74 Grosvenor St, St George Hanover Sq, Lon, b.Downe, Kent servant to Thomas Buzzard 69 physician b.Lon, wife 59 & dau 16; footman 18, cook Alexander Sabine 55m b.Switzerland (naturalised Brit Subj), Maria Staily 37unm dom maid b.Switzerland; housemaid 34unm, under maid 16; scan & scan
: '11cen Ernest William Liverton Soper 47 married butler {no children} in 12 rooms at Pokhill, Harrietsham; b.Downe, Kent; servant to Victor Beigel 40unm singing teacher b.Lon; visitor John Borie 42unm architect b.Aikin, SG, US; gardener Alfred Lewis 53 Cudham, Kt & gardener's wife Allen 50 b.Hever, Kt {m.30y 1 birth} scan
: '11cen Marie Soper 45 married housemaid (naturalied 1901) [servant to same family as husband] in 12 rooms at 89 Gloucester Rd, Kensington; b.Switzerland & cook 45unm, footman 17, between maid 18 (signed Victor Beigel; top 3 lines rubbed out Victor Beigil a singing tutor), sister 42unm annuitant & Ernest Soper 49? unreadable scan
: 1914-18 ?an Ernest W Soper, Private, Middlesex Regiment, nrG/1291 WW1, [but assume not, as he'd be 47]
: 1924 - Ernest H Soper b.Jul>Sep 1924, Paddington, Lon (mother nee Cram)
: 1932 Ernest W L Soper m.Lizzie H Cram Oct>Dec 1932 Alton, Hants
: '39cen Ernest W Soper '66' [but 71] butler (b.3 Oct 1872 'form cr318 3 Oct 1967; r3 21 05; cs 2/2/62'); Lizzie H 51 housekeeper (b.29 Mar 1888), both married at 42 Wimpole St, St Marylebone, Lon; Ernest R? or B? 15unm messenger, ministry of information (b.30 Jul 1924); with James E R McDonagh b.17 Oct 1881 medicine surgeon; Josephine O McDonagh b.9 Jun 1900 medicine doctor, both married; Florence V Cousins (will m.Mr Brigg) b.1 Nov 1908 unm housemaid scan : [Lizzie listed 3rd & elderly Ernest 6th, so implies accompanying her]
: 1957 ?a Marie L Soper d.Apr>Jun 1957 Eton, Bucks age 93 [if her, implies divorce after 1911?; not vis '39cen]
: 1963 ?an Ernest W (c1868-1963) d.Jun>Aug 1963, age 95 Isle of Wight; & Lizzie H d.Jan>Mar 1968, age 80 I of W
- Winifred Catherine Soper b.Oct>Dec 1908 Sheppey; ?a Winifred C m.Leslie J McDonald Jan>Mar 1934, Dartford, Kt
- Grace F M Soper b.Jan>Mar 1915 Sheppey (mother ne Steer) m.Bernard Dove Apr>Jun 1939, Blean, Kt
: '81cen �Ada K Steer� 1 at 41 Canal Rd, Mile End with parents Caleb William Steer & Katherine (nee Grimsdall)). dau, Grace Edith Steer 15 Jul 1896 b.Mile End, m.8 Apr 1922, Sheppey to Arthur Westwood (c1890-1933) : [lost www link]
: '91cen James 42 refreshment superintendant, coffee at 131 Church St, (St Mary), Stoke Newington, Lon; b.Stoke Gabriel, Dev; Sarah E 39 b.Torosay, Dev; Henry T 15 clerk CC; Frederic J 12 both b.Stoke Gabriel; Amelia N 7; Richard J 4; Edmund W 2 all b.Stoke Newington (sharing address with household of 8) scan
: '01cen Fredk 22 stoker b.Exeter. Dev
: '11cen Frederick James 32m petty officer 1st class on "HMS Duncan", Grand Harbour, Malta, Mediterranean; b.Stoke Gabriel, Dev scan : [bmd; no Suffolk birth vis : ?a Frederick James b.1878 Totnes, Dev; but if lost link correct FJS b.1855, so age 56 & not vis '11cen]
: '11cen Ada (c1881-?) 30m wife {m.4y, 1 birth}in 6 rooms at 53 Jefferson Rd, Sheerness, Sheppey, Kt; b.Lon, dau Winifred 2 b.Sheerness; also visitors Millicent Davies 24 {m.2y, 1 birth}, son George 9m & Arthur Horsham 7 all b.Sheerness scan
: '39cen Frederick J 61 Royal Navy (pensioned) (b.8 Apr 1878) at Pendennis, Ravenscourt Rd, Bridge-Blean, Kt; Ada C 60 housewife (b.28 Jul 1879) ; also Florence E Steer b.31 Jan 1894 domestic worker (daily) unm scan
: 1960 Ada C Soper d.Oct>Dec 1960 Thanet RD, Kt, age 81
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Harold Soper & Godfrey Stevenson [listed 1st] firm of 'Godfrey Stevenson� at 21 London Rd, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, has been disposed of by us to 'G Stevenson (The Kent & Sussex Garage) Ltd', 30 Jul 1907. Our partnership was dissolved 30 May. (London Gazette 20 Aug) : [Harold m.Adelaide M Kent Jan>Mar 1911, Sevenoaks (& at Tunbridge Wells '11cen) (?also a Harold m.Bertha Bourner at Bridge, Kent Apr>Jun 1903)]
- William Charles Soper b.Jul>Sep 1892, Dorchester, Dor [not vis '11cen; m.not vis] m.Dorothy E M Foot Jul>Sep 1920 Dorcester
: '01cen James G 21 labourer with mother Mary E 52 widow, domestic at 3 Sheppey St, Sheerness, Kt; James G 21 labourer; Frederick H 14 factory boy dockyard all b.Sheerness; scan
: 1902 James George (1888-?) Gunner, nr.22259, Royal Field Artillery 1902-6; 5ft 9in (+1in on discharge); chest 40in; fair complexion; blue eyes; light hair; a carman, address on discharge 15 Albion Place, Harriss Rd, Sheerness; b.Minster, Sheerness, Kent; next of kin mother Mary, elder brother William, younger brother Frederick all at 12 Sheppey St, Sheerness, Kent; age 22y 1d; weight 166�lbs; chest 37�in, C of E; Joined at Woolwich 26 Feb; Home service (2�y); pay at 4d Apr 04; India Dec 04 (1�y); Invalided India; Discharged May 06 (4�y) conduct, v.good; good conduct badge; age 26y 4m; Pension rejected army record
: '11cen James George 31 labourer in 2 rooms at 6 Rose St, Mile Town, Sheerness, Sheppey, Kt; b.Sheerness; Edith 25 {m.under 1y, no births} b.Leyton, Ex scan
: '39cen James? G 59 skilled labourer (b.6 Jan 1880) at Nialaba?, Oak Ave, Sheppey; Edith 53 housewife (b.7 Mar 1886); also Jeaurei R De.Pothonier b.8 Jan 1880 independent unm female scan : [62 de Pothonier records vis bmd no Jean]
: 1952 ?a James G Soper (c1878-1952) d.Jan>Mar age 74 Sheppey; & ?an Edith Soper (c1887-1965) d.Jan>Mar, Bridge, Kt, age 78 [nr.Canterbury]
- Evelyn M[ary] Soper b.7 Dec 1911 (b. reg Jan>Mar 1912) at Ticehurst (mother ne Kent) unm traveller 1948-55 : [?so not the Evelyn M Soper m.Harold P Dunstan Apr>Jun 1930 Battersea]
- Joan L Soper b.Jul>Sep 1913 at Ticehurst (mother ne Kent)
: '81cen [assume] Harold 1 with parents Samuel Henry 44 linen draper at Cuckfield, Louisa 38 b.Brighton : [owned Soper's Drapery Emporium, Brighton, Sx] : ['91cen, student 11 with family, Brighton]
: Harold of 43, Buckingham Place, Brighton [& many other] candidates presented themselves at the preliminary examination of Surveyors' Institution & satisfied the examiners 19/20 [Jan?] : from The Builder News 4 Feb 1898
: '01cen Harold 21unm auctioneers clerk at Hove, Sx, b.Haywards Heath living at 1 Wilbury Villas, Wilbury Place, Hove, (All Saints), Sx [4 story semi] with widowed mother Louisa living on own means, b.Brighton, Sx 1901 Census; dau Louisa M 22unm b.Haywards Heath, Sx with housemaid Annie Foster 36 d.E.Grinstead, Sx & cook Jennie Hughes 23 b.Hants scan
: H Soper Esq., Edenbridge, Kent. Edenbridge & District Farmers' Club : Live Stock Journal pub.1909 Google Books
: Harold m.Adelaide M Kent Jan>Mar 1911, Sevenoaks
: '11cen Harold 31 motor car dealer, garage proprietor (employer) at 68 Warwick Park, Tunbridge Wells {10 rooms}, b.Haywards Heath, Sx; wife Adelaide Mary 24 {m.under 1y, no births} b.Stoke Newington, Lon with sister-in-law 21unm Doris Viola Kent 21 b.Clissold Pk, Lon & domestic servant Ethel Simmons 19unm b.Milton Regis, Kt : scan : [190? motor agent bankruptcy Tunbridge Wells (connected? with father's bankruptcy Brighton 1906-8)]
: Harold Soper & Adelade (Ada) Kent; dau's Joan b.1913 & Evelyn M b.1912 Ticehurst District. from seosaimh (at) msn.com looking for marriage details, assumes fairly near Ticehurst rootschat.com [reply : Harold m.Adelaide Sevenoaks 1911]
: H Soper & G Stevenson, motor agents & engineers of Tunbridge Wells, Kent, trading as Godfrey Stevenson. Partnership dissolved : from The Times, 21 Aug 1907 667/746n : [connection? a Henry Soper of T.Wells d.1890]
Harold Soper & Godfrey Stevenson [listed 1st] firm of 'Godfrey Stevenson� at 21 London Rd, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, has been disposed of by us to 'G Stevenson (The Kent & Sussex Garage) Ltd', 30 Jul 1907. Our partnership was dissolved 30 May. (London Gazette 20 Aug)]
: [Harold executor of James Kent of Edenbridge 1922]
: Harold Soper (c1880-1933) d.Oct>Dec at Ticehurst : Harold Soper d.25 Oct 1933 of Wychmont, Frant Rd, Tunbridge Wells, Kent; probate Lon 5 Dec 1933 to Adelaide Mary Soper, widow, William Jenner, district valuer; estate �2,529 18s; resworn �3,148 4s 9d; from Probate Calender, scan
: Adelaide Mary Soper (1887-?) housewife 61 & Evelyn Mary Soper 36 nurse sailed on "Lalandia" from Middlesbrough to Singapore, from 15 Oct 1948 address Felstead, Woodland Way, Bidborough, nr.Tunbridge Wells, Kent; Last permanant residence Malaya; Intended future residence Eng (ship to Penang, Port Swettenham & Bangkok) ; scan; from findmypast
: Adelaide Mary (1886-?) housewife 66 & Evelyn Mary 41 nuses, 1st class on "Chusan" (P & O) Lon to Singapore, from 31 Oct 1952 address Felstead, Woodland Wy; Last residence Malaya; Intended residence Eng (ship cont to Hong Kong) ; scan
: Evelyn Mary (b.7 Dec 1911) 44, 1st class on "Willem Ruys" (Royal Rotterdam Lloyd Line), Southampton to Singapore, from 4 Feb 1955, address Felstead; Intended residence Eng (Malaya); scan
: Evelyn (b.7 Dec 1911) housewife 46 & Adelaide 71 (b.30 Oct 1886) retired, 1st class on "Dinteldyk" (Holland-America Line), Lon to San Francisco, US, from 3 Oct 1957 address Rostrevor, Woodland Way, Bidborough; Last & future residence UK (29 on board); scan
: Charles Daniel b.Jul>Sep 1873 Blackheath to John Henry m.Hannah Dandridge, 1868 Woolwich, Kt
- Helen Elizabeth Soper b.3 Jan 1904 [b.Jan>Mar], Greenwich, Lon; m.Vincent C Preece Jan>Mar 1926, Dartford, Kt : [a tool grinder below]
- Charles Soper b.Apr>Jun 1905, Greenwich
- Walter Leonard Soper b.11 Jan 1910 [b.Jan>Mar], Dartford, Kent; '39cen 29unm cemetery labourer;
: '01cen Charles D government labourer 28 b.Blackheath at 5 Tranquil Passage, Blackheath, Lon with parents John H 60 confectioner (baker), self employed at home, b.Mile Town, Sheerness, Kent; Hannah 52 b.Hockwellop, Bucks; Charles D government labourer 28; Wilfred Augustus government labourer 22; Frederick L journeyman baker 21; Edith W Soper 20 all b.Blackheath, Lon(/'Kent'); Arthur S Soper page boy 15; Leonard A Soper 8 both b.Greenwich, Lon ; scan
: '11cen Charles Daniel (c1873-?) 38 explosive labourer; Royal Arsenal Works (Government) in 5 rooms at 13 Gipsy Rd, Welling, Bexley, (Dartford dist), Kent, b.Blackheath, Lon; Sarah Elizabeth 37 {m.8y, 3 births, all alive} b.Hinton Pava, Wilts; Helen Elizabeth 7; Charles 5 both at school, b.Greenwich, Kt; Walter Leonard 1 b.Welling, Kent; also in-laws David Lawrence 67 journeyman carpenter b.Hinton Pava & Elizabeth 67 {m.22y} b.Salisbury, Wilts (previous wife of David Lawrence) scan : [see Lawrence tree]
: 1917 ?a Sarah E Soper (c1873-1917) d.Apr>Jun 1917, age 44, Dartford, Kt
: 1926 ?a Charles D Soper d.Jan>Mar 1926 at Dartford age 53
: '39cen Walter L 29unm labourer; cemetery (b.11 Jan 1910) at 38 Ethronvi Rd, Bexley, Kt; with Vincent C Preece b.19 Apr 1903 precision tool room grinder; Helen E Preece b.3 Jan 1904 housewife; line 3-7 temp withheld & Walter 8th scan
: 1940? a Walter Leonard Soper nr.1653437; attested Royal Artillery 1940; S/L; Transfered to Devon reg 14 Apr 1944 scan
; James G Soper m.Edith Singer Oct>Dec 1910, Sheppey, Kent (bmd)
in 4 rooms at 1 Ida Cottages, Perry St, Northfleet, (Strood dist}, Kent '11cen, b.Frimley, Hants; Eliza Soper 38 {m.12y, 0 births} b.Hackney, Lon & boarders Matilda Susan Leggett 61 widow {m.31y 2births, both alive} & Thomas James Leggett 27unm gen lbr both b.Gravesend, Kt, all b.Sheerness scan : [Jamesm.Eliza McCormack 1898, Camberwell]
- Elizabeth Annie Soper b.Jan>Mar 1902, Greenwich
- Lucy May Soper b.Jan>Mar 1904, Greenwich
: Lucy�May Soper age 21, sailed from London to Gibraltar, 1925 : from findmypast
- Hilda A Soper b.Jan>Mar 1916 Woolwich (mother ne Usmar)
family sailed to Australia, 1911 & 1912 from findmypast.com
: [Theodore William J Soper birth reg Apr>Jun 1903, Nellie Rose Soper b.8 Feb 1905 [see 1905 above] both Bromley district : presume father Theodore William Soper (b.1877 Bromley) m.Rose Clarke at Yeovil 1901]
: Theodore William Joseph Soper Service nr; Q215142 : b.8 Mar 1903 at Chislehurst, England [Kent] : Enlisted Marian Qld [Australia] : Next of kin - Amy : Canberra record 1939-48, from Aust Archive B884
- William A Soper b.Apr>Jun 1913 Bromley; William Alfred Soper; Pvte in WW2; d.Jul>Sep 1973 Bromley, b.5 Apr 1913
- John H Soper b.Jul>Sep 1914 Bromley : [John Hugh Soper b.c1915; m.Jenny Widdowfield Oct>Dec 1937; d.WW2 1944]
: '91 not vis;
: '01cen Albert Soper 31 pte RMLI; on 'HMS Benbow', 1st class battleship of Reserve Sdrn off Keyham Dockyard; 381 men inc 69 marines & 12 officers at Devonport, Dev; b.Bromley, Kt; scan & scan
: '11cen Albert A 41unm postman b.Dover, Kent; with parents William J 81 police pensioner (policeman crossed out) in 5 rooms at 7 Plaistow Grove, Bromley, Kent, b.Woodbury, Dev, Elizabeth 79 {m.58y, 6 births} b.Torrington, Dev scan
: '39cen Alfred A 70 cold storage supervisor (b.20 Jan 1869) at 2 Lancaster Place, Chislehurst & Sidcup, Kent; Anne C 63 unpaid dom duties (b.15 May 1876); William A 29unm 13s 4d wx r pte nr.634? (b.17 Apr 1910) [but b.1913] [line crossed out; death mark? 5/3/64] scan
: 1944 John Hugh Soper b.1914, parents Alfred A & Annie C lived at St Mary Cray, Orpington, Kt when enlisted in Coldstream Guards. Killed Cassino, Italy, 17 Feb 1944. His wife, Jenny, lived Alloa, Clackmannanshire, Scotland [Medals for sale 2006] source
: 1944 Albert Soper (c1870-1944) d.Jul>Sep 1944, Bromley, Kent, age 74
: 1957 ?Annie C Soper (c1875-1957) d.Oct>Dec 1957, Dartford, Lon, age 82
: 1973 William Alfred Soper d.Jul>Sep 1973 Bromley, b.5 Apr 1913
- Charles A Soper b.Oct>Dec 1913 at Medway, Kt (mother ne Harford)
: ?a Florence E Soper (c1874-1913) d.Jul>Sep 1913, Medway, Kent, age 39 [but only if son's b. registered late]
- Henry A Soper b.Jan>Mar 1915, Greenwich (mother nee Coates)
- Elsie E Soper b.Jan>Mar 1920, Greenwich (ne Coates); d.Jul>Sep 1922, age 2, Dartford, Kent
- Gladys E Soper b.Jan>Mar 1922, Greenwich (ne Coates); ??a Gladys E Soper m.Sidney K Dawson Oct>Dec 1942, Deptford, Lon
- Richard George Neal Soper? 15? Aug 1915 Folkstone [Richard G N Soper b.Jul>Sep 1915 Elham]; Post Office wireless operator, London 1936 scan; m.Margaret Channing Jan>Mar 1940 Richmond, Sy
- Peggy I P Soper b.4 Sep 1918 [b.Jul>Sep] Hartlepool, Durham; '39cen 21unm comptometer operator
: '39cen George E 58 dental surgeon & Capt RAMC dental asst county director) (b.17 Jan 1881) at Inveray, Victoria Rd, West Hartlepool, Durham; Jeanne M 47 unpaid dom duties (& ARP [air raid precautions]) (b.21 Dec 1891); Peggy I 21unm comptometer operator (b.4 Sep 1918) scan
: '39cen Margaret C Channing (will m.Mr Soper) 23unm children nurse (b.18 Jan 1916) at Easby Drive, Ilkley, Yorks (W.Riding); other lines temp withheld scan
: '01cen Sidney 17 clerk London docks with family at Deptford, Robert 50 a house builder, Martha 47 & assumed children Percy 25, Robert 23 both builder's clerk, Ethel 20, Louie 19, Sidney 17 clerk London docks all b.Deptford, Harold 15, Stanley 13 & Evelina 10, Dorothy 8 all b.Greenwich (not Deptford as '11cen)
: c1905 Articled 3y to R A Jack MSA, Architect & Surveyor, Peninsular Ho, Monument St, Lon, EC, then retained by him as Chief Draughtman, for 4y; then Architectural Ass by E Cannell, A & S, 3 Suffolk Ln, EC. Then 5 other architects*
: '11cen Stanley George 22unm architect with parents, Robert 60 builder in 10 rooms at 208 Lewisham High Rd, St Paul Deptford, Greenwich RD, Lon; b.Deptford, Lon; Martha 57 {m.37y 11 births, 10 alive) b.Brighton, Sx; Ethel E Soper 30; Harold 25unm builders clerk, Stanley George 22unm architect; Eveline H Soper 20unm Dorothy G Soper 18 & gen servant, Maud Brunton 22unm, all b.Deptford scan
: 1913 Chief Ass Drawing Office & Supervisor of London contracts (4y) for P M Fraser A & S of Lincoln's Inn; before starting military duties; designed & construction of power houses, grain stores, dye houses, seaplane sheds, chemical works ext*
: 1915 Stanley George Soper of 50 Woodville Rd took examinations for candidature as Associate RIBA, held London 3-11 Dec & passed; from Engineering Journal source
: 1916 of 50 Woodville Rd, Golders Green, Lon, NW4; Jul 1916 medical at Hammersmith; b.Deptford, Kt; Classification C1 (chest & hemorrhoids); 28y 11m; 5ft 6in; chest 33�-37in; fair developments; 6/6 sight; 3 vaccination marks; C of E
: 1917 Sapper & Cpl 264519 Royal Engineers; mobilised Apr 1917 Cricklewood, NW & service started (Jun 1916 Enlisted for duration of war, but not called-up); May 1917 passed trade test, Chatham, Superior Architectural Draughtman & requested move from London Electrical Engineers, Regency St, Lon, SW1 to 6th Provisional Co, RE, St Marys Barracks, Chatham, He's a C1 man & his elder brother already serves in the unit; Jan
: 1918 applied for transfer; May 1919 promoted 2nd Cpl; Oct 1919 M.O.L.EE, OC Dept, RE; Returned to London from temp duty to Chief Engineer, Eastern Command; Oct 1919 dispersal unit, Crystal Palace, Lon WW1 record
: 1925 Stanley G Soper ARIBA [Associate of the Royal Institute of British Architects], 5 Alexander Sq, SW3, 'Kensington 9598'; from 1925 to at least 1955 (not in 1960) from 1927, 7 John St, WC2, 'Gerade 8188"; from 1936, 22 Surrey St, WC2 'Temple Bar 5888'; in 1955 ARIBA>FRIBA
: 1925 Stanley patented a down-draught preventing chimney pot (by using an inner tube); UK Patent.264966-A; applied 24 Nov 1925, granted 3 Feb 1927 source
: '39cen Stanley G 51 architect & surveyor (b.18 Aug 1888) at 12 Sutherland Ave, Orpington, Kt; Henrietta M 53 unpaid dom duties (b.21 Jun 1886); 3rd line temp withheld scan
: 1967 Henrietta Mabel Soper d.27 Jan 1967; Brockheath, 12 Sutherland Ave, Orpington, Kt; probate claims by 23 Jun; London Gazette 14 Apr 1967 scan [b.Jul>Sep 1886 Greenwich, Kt]
: 1978 SGS d.Jan>Mar 1978 Bromley, Kt: from source (or Stanley d.1975 see parents)
Frank Soper, Private, Royal West Kent Regiment, nrTF/241182
Frederick G Soper, Private..., East Kent Regiment, nr20930 [?a Frederick b.Sheerness 14 '01cen - or ?a Frederick G Soper b.1899. m.1927 & d.1982 all Berks?]
Hugh C Soper, Private..., Royal West Kent Regiment, nr5305
Owan Norman Soper, Private..., East Kent Regiment, nr1724 [should be Owen, see below]
William W Soper, Private, Royal West Kent Regiment, nrG/20570
- Albert T Soper b.Jul>Sep 1915 at Dartford (mother ne Dove) [Edward Knight Soper, see Surrey notes]
Clarissa M Soper Whitburn, Medal card : rank, Assistant Forewoman, Queen Mary's Army Auxiliary Corps, Regiment No: 14893 : WW1 record batch from 1914-1920 WO 372/23 [see Col CW Soper Whitburn 1914 above] : nationalarchives.gov.uk : [at army party 1910]
- Joan V R Soper b.Apr>Jun 1920, Camberwell, Lon (mother nee George); m.Jozef F Kurkowski Jul>Sep 1952, Camberwell
: 1903 Joseph Edwin railway messenger joined London, Brighton & S.Coast 6 Mar 1903, age 14, Time Bill Office; recommended by school b.8 Oct 1888; wage 8s pw; to 10s Jan 05; to 12s Dec 05; at Anerley; porter, Brockley Dec'05 16s Jul'06 Brockley Station (S of L.Bridge), Lon; scan1, 2, 3, 4
: '11cen ?a Joseph E (c1889-) Ordinary Seaman 22unm on "Inflexible", 1st Cruiser Sdr, Howth Head, Overseas, Royal Navy; Ireland (at sea, lat 53.28N Lon 5.37W) scan
: 1914 Joseph Ernest Soper carpenter. joined Railway Workers Union, New Cross 2 Branch, Kent, L B & S G, scale B, 1914 scan & rejoined 1919, labourer, scale D; left P F, Jan 1931 scan
: '39cen Joseph E 50m signal fitter?, maintenance & repair staff; Southern Railway (b.8 Oct 1888) at 9 Rising Rd, Ashford, Kt; Eliza 52m unpaid dom duties (b.9 Nov 1886); lines 3, 5 & 6 temp witheld; 4th Jean C Wootton (Bal?s) b.8 Nov 1925 at school scan
: 1968 ?an Eliza Soper (c1887-1968) d.Apr>Jun 1968, Camberwell, Lon, age 81
: 1972 Joseph Edwin Soper (1888-1972) d.Jul>Sep 1972, Camberwell, Lon, age 84
- James F Soper b.Oct>Dec 1919, Kingston, Lon (mother nee Allard)
: '11cen propagator at florist 17;
: Alfred army records gardener; in territorials 1908-13; injured Gallipoli 1915 Private, bugular, drummer, Corp & Sgt Royal Sussex Reg & 1916 Royal Fusiliers
: 1908 11 St Peters Road, West Crawley
: 1915 St Paul, New Cross, SE Lon
: 1915 gardener of The Lodge, Standon, East Grinstead, Sx
: 1916? 59 Spencer Road, Crawley, Sx
: 1919? policemen of 22 Rolling St, Canterbury Rd, Old Kent Rd, SE Lon
: 1921 30 Somerset Road, Teddington, M.sx
Owen Norman Soper private 5th Buffs, serving men, Ashford Town. List of men published 1915, Kentish Express Newspaper
: ['91cen (presume father?) Owen 24 lodger at Ashford, Kent]
: [birth registered Oct>Dec 1896 West Ashford, Kent (bmd) to James Henry Owen Soper & Maria Harriet (Jenner) who m.1895]
: ['01cen, no Owen. Only Ashford entry, Lizzie Soper 28 at Wandsworth]
: ['11cen, Owen Norman Soper 14 an office boy, railway at 136 [West/Hill/Rd], West Ashford, parents James Henry Owen Soper 44 [waggon, coach & carriage railway foreman] wife Maria Harriet Soper 36 & Edward Cyril Soper 7, all but James b.W.Ashford]
: [WW1 Pvt Owan Normann Soper, E.Kent Reg above]
: [presume Lieut O N Soper in Punjab Reg 1919]
- Arthur T Soper b.Oct>Dec 1919 at Lewisham (mother nee Lifford) : [d.Apr>Jun 1931 age 11 at Lewisham, bur with mother]
- Kathleen M Soper b.Apr>Jun 1927 at Lewisham (m.ne Lifford) (no other Soper/Lifford births in bmd)
an Agnes d.1935, age 45 : Memorial Inscriptions Ladywell & Brockley Cemetery, Lewisham [bmd says d.Jan>Mar 1935 age 48, Lewisham]
- Kathleen E Soper b.5 Apr 1920 [b.Apr>Jun Sheppey], Kent (mother nee Sansom); d.1979 Thanet
: '11cen Frederick 24unm skilled labourer, rigger, HM Dockyard both b.Sheerness, with mother Mary Emma (c1848-?) 63 widowed head {m.38y, 14 births, 4 alive} in 2? rooms at 137 Hope St, Sheerness, Sheppey, Kent; grandau Maud Stacy 13 at school b.Sheerness scan [no Soper/Stacy m.vis]
: 1936 Edith F Soper (c1889-1936) d.Jan>Mar 1936, Sheppey, Kent, age 47
: '39cen Frederick H 52w electrical wireman, HM dockyard yard, heavy work (b.19 Jan 1887) at 112 Invicta Rd, Sheerness, Kent; Kathleen E 19unm housewife (b.5 Apr 1920) scan
: '39cen Mabel M Bagshaw (will m.Mr Soper) c42 (b.1896) at Sheppey, Kent
: 1947 ?a Frederick H m.Mabel M Bagshaw Jul>Sep 1947, Sheppey [d.not vis]
: 1978 Frederick Henry Soper (1887-1978) d.Oct>Dec 1978, Chatham, Kent, [age 91]; (b.19 Jan 1887)
: 1979 Kathleen Elizabeth Soper (1920-1979) d.Apr>Jun 1979, Thanet, Kent, [age 59] (b.5 Apr 1920)
: Selina Soper d.1918 age 69 wife, Thomas Soper d.1921, age 69 husband : Memorial Inscriptions Ladywell & Brockley Cemetery, Lewisham, NW Kent; source [Thomas Soper m.Selina Pitt Jul>Sep 1874, Stoke Damerel, Dev : see sailors]
: Mr Soper Whitburn had a �20,000 bet with his wife & her trainer, against her horse' Drake' winning the Derby : from Guardian Newspaper, 24 Dec 1922 [see 1923 below]
: Col C W Soper Whitburn selling Addington Park between Wrotham & Malling, a 15 bed mansion in mature pleasure grounds, electric light & telephone, with 2,404 acres, lodges, farm, business premises & 15 cottages. Auction at Maidstone : from Guardian paper, 3 Jun 1923 [Kent Yeomen commander 1914]
- Arthur E Soper b.Apr>Jun 1923 at Pancras, Lon (mother nee Glock)
- Yvonne J Soper b.Oct>Dec 1923 at Woolwich, Kt (m.ne Glock)
- Sheila E Soper b.12 Sep 1927 [b.Oct>Dec] at Woolwich (m.Glock); m.John W Parker Jan>Mar 1948, Woolwich
: '39cen Sheila E Soper (will m.Mr.Parker) 12 at school (b.12 Sep 1927) at Finches Farm, Tonbridge, Kt; with Sarah A Huggins b.18 Jul 1863 unpaid dom duties, widow; Dorothy Huggins b.26 Sep 1906 udd, married; Sheila line 3 scan
- Desmond Soper b.Oct>Dec 1925 Medway (mother nee Paskins)
- Gwendoline D Soper b.Apr>Jun 1928 Medway (m.ne Paskins); m.Peter H Reed Jul>Sep 1949, Chatham, Kent (bmd)
- Pamela K Soper b.Apr>Jun 1931 Medway (m.ne Paskins) (no other Soper/Paskin births in bmd)
: 1884 John Robert Soper (1884-?), b.Cork, Ireland, 20 Oct 1884, nr209559, Admiralty's Registers of Seamen's Services National Archives ADM 188/366 [see William below] : John Soper b.Oct>Dec 1884 Listowel; [Ireland, Civil Registration]
: 1901 J R Soper 16 boy 1st class crew at 'Wanderer', sloop, Home Station, Portland, Weymouth, Dorset, '01cen, b.Kerry, Ireland scan, scan & scan : [not vis '91/'11cen ]
: 1914-8 John Robert Soper nr.209559 Royal Navy; b.20 Oct 1884 Cork, Ireland; WW1, Admiralty's Registers of Seamen's Services
: '39cen John R 66 gen labourer 'brcs yad, n.lincs 48a�.' (b.14 Dec 1872) at 45 Grosvenor Rd, Skegness, Lincs; Mabel E 54 unpaid dom duties (b.20 Oct 1884) scan
: 1951 Florence Kirby, d.27 Apr 1951; of 47 Forest Rd, Tunbridge Wells, Kt & 45 Grosvenor Rd, Skegness, Lincs (personal representatives, John Robert & Mabel Ellen) thegazette.co.uk; Florence found gassed in 45 Grosvenor Rd; home of her dau, Mrs Soper; John R gave evidence at inquest; Skegness Standard 2 May
: 1961 John Robert Soper (c1885-1961) bur.5 Jun�1961, St Clements, Skegness, age 76 freereg; d.Apr>Jun Spilsbury reg dist
: 1965 Mabel Ellen Soper (c1885-1965) bur.9 Nov�1965, St Clements, Skegness, age 80 freereg; d.Oct>Dec Spilsbury
- Leslie E J Soper b.Jul>Sep 1927 Bromley (mother nee Rhodes) m.Ronald B A Hopcroft Oct>Dec 1945, Tonbridge, Kent (bmd)
- Ronald S Soper b.Jul>Sep 1929 Bromley (m.ne Rhodes)
- Stella V Soper b.Oct>Dec 1930 Bromley (m.ne Rhodes) m.Reginald Tomkinson Oct>Dec 1951 Tonbridge
- (?Gerald Soper b.Jul>Sep 1941 Tonbridge, (mother ne Rhodes))
: '39cen ?a Sidney 40 married telephone operator unemployed (b.5 Dec 1898) at 2 Dane Hill Row, Margate, Kt; also Susan Slater b.21 Jul 1895 daily domestic, unemployed, '23171 ad216/1', unm scan [no b.1898 vis bmd]
: '39cen Inez M Soper (will m.Mr.Shoesmith '19/7/48 djp m') 31 married, char work (b.2 Nov 1907) at 57 London Rd, Sevenoaks, Kt; with William Rhodes b.23 Sep 1878 foreman baker; Ada Rhodes b.5 Mar 1874 udd; Inez 3rd; lines 4-7 temp withheld & Margaret C Cakin (will m.Mr.Jackson) b.1 Nov 1928 at school scan
: 1947 Sidney H Soper (c1896-1947) d.Oct>Dec 1947 Thanet, age 51
: 1948 Inez F M Soper m.William Shoesmith Jul>Sep 1948 Tonbridge
: '11cen Albert Alexander John Soper 8 at (19 Blackheath/W/Bridge/St), Greenwich, with Albert 33 & Maud Elizabeth 33, all b.Millwall
- Jean A Soper b. Apr>Jun, 1929 at Lewisham (mother ne Chapman [only Soper/Chapman b.in bmd]); m.Henry A Castle Jan>Mar 1951, Lewisham
: father Albert 19 Bridge Rd, Greenwich, SE Lon older brother of Sidney b.c1893 Millwall in army army record
: '39cen Jean A Soper (will m.Mr.Castle; 'inst 331 : inst? 314') 12 at school (b.1 Apr 1929; '+.0') at Sandhurst, Grants Gate, Hollingbourne, Kt; with [grparents?] George Chapman b.26 Feb 1874 general carrier & coal merchant; Elizabeth Chapman b.30 Jan 1874 udd; Doris W Chapman (will m.Mr Grant) b.29 Apr 1904 udd unm & Jean 4th scan
: 1974 Eveline Elizabeth Soper (1902-1974) d.Apr>Jun, Lewsiham, Lon, age 72 (b.20 Feb)
: '11cen Margaret Juliet (c1896-?) 15 pupil [boarding school] at Worcester Park School, Westgate-on-Sea, Thanet, Kt; b.Highgate, Lon; 18 female pupils 10-17 under Elizabeth Walsh 54unm schoolmistress of boarding school, Ass, maths 46unm & parlourmaid 28 scan : [not vis '01cen]
- Margaret Juliet Soper b.Jul>Sep 1895, Edmonton, Lon
: [??seems not this family? '01cen at Kingston on Thames, Surrey; Frederick 38 railway clerk b.Chichester, Sx; Rosa 39 b.S.set, Edward 11 & Margaret 6 both b.Wandsworth, Lon : as Frederick William Soper m.Rosa Hallett 1886, Wandsworth]
- John A E Soper b.Apr>Jun 1932 Hollingbourne, Kt (mother nee Thompson)
: ??a Wilfred A Soper, Private..., Royal Lancaster Regiment, nr28435 WW1 [but a 2nd Wifred A b.1889 Lon]
: '39cen Wilfred A 35 carrier (b.12 Jun 1904) at Coronation Villas, Platts Heath, Soucheas?, Hollingbourne, Kt; Alice S Soper (will m.Mr.Parker 'crr kc 27/1/72') 33 unpaid dom duties (helping evacuate children) (b.23 Sep 1906); John A E 7 at school (b.6 Apr 1932) scan
: 1962 Wilfred B Soper (c1904-1962) d.Jul>Sep 1962, London C, Lon, age 58
: 1971 Alice S Soper m.Herbert Parker Oct>Dec 1971, Tonbridge, Kent (bmd)
- Reginald S Soper m.Muriel C G Gammons Jul>Sep 1928 at Brighton, Sx
: ['11cen a Denis 3 & mother Georgina 34 at Greenwich]
- Pamela D T Soper b.Apr>Jun 1932 at Bromley (mother ne Bonar)
- Patricia M G Soper b.Apr>Jun 1932 at Bromley (mother ne Bonar) : [?a Michael C Soper b.Oct>Dec 1941 Bournmouth (mother ne Bonar)]
Denis Courtney Soper certificate issued as skilled workman, Civil Service 2 Feb 1931 (London Gazette 6 Mar) & PO records scan1 & 2
: Denis Courtney Soper appointment Probationary As Engineers, Post Office 18 Jul 1936 (London Gazette 11 Aug)
: DC Soper grade AE, Ground Controlled Interception & Fighter Direction Worth Matravers, TRE (Telecommunications Research Establishment) Mar 1942 source
: DC Soper contributed to a book on radar 1947 source
: Denis Courtney Soper appointment Probationary As Engineers, Post Office 18 Jul 1936 (L.Gazette 8 Oct) [see Denis Courtney Soper 1931]
: D C Soper Hon. Squadron Leader, Flight Officer (Commission relinquished on cessation of duty on account of ill-health) retaining his rank: 19 Oct 1943 (L.Gazette 1 Aug
D C Soper (71577) Squadron Leader (honorary) Commission relinquished on cessation of duty (Mundia; photo on Ancestry.com
: Denis C (c1904-?) 42 scientist, Brigid 38 housewife, Danies 14, Patricia 14 & Michael 4 sailed 1st class on "Queen Mary" from New York to Southampton, Eng arriving 26 Jun 1946; Last permanant address US; Planned future residence Eng; address 8 Links Rd, Bellevue, Shewsbury, [Shropshire] scan; UK Incoming Register
: Eliza Soper d.24 Dec 1933, widow of 65 Nelson Rd, Gravesend, Kent; died ; admin Lon 24 Jan 1934 to Mary Cairnes (wife of William Cairnes); estate �695 13s; from Probate Calender, scan [Eliza (c1863-1933) d.Oct>Dec, Strood, age 70] : [?death the same day]
: James Soper b.Jan>Mar 1873, Farnham [bmd dist (inc Frimley)], Sy
: ?? only James/Eliz m.vis James Soper m.Eliza McCormack Jul>Sep 1898, Camberwell
: '81cen James 8 scholar; b.Frimley, with Miles Lokes 33 porter woolen trade, Padworth, Berks; wife Elizabeth Lokes 31 b.Silchester, Hants & 4 kids 3-6 b.Lon & widowed sister Mary Ann Rye 44 b.Padworth, Berks
: '91cen James 18 nephew b.Frimley, Hants with Robert H at 29 Padworth, Berks; b.Paddington, Lon; Jane 26 b.Aldermaston, Berks; Frederick R 4 b.Padworth, Berks;
: '01cen [perhaps wrong connection?] James 29 gen lab at Shaw Cum Donnington, Berks; b.Trimpley, Sy; Eliza 38 b.Lon.
: '11cen ??a James (c1873-?) 38 head [general labourer] at (1 Cottages), Strood, Kt; b.Frimley, Hants; wife Eliza 38 b.Hackney, Lon
- Pauline G Soper b.Apr>Jun 1936, Tonbridge, Kent (mother nee Cornhill); m.Brian H Morris Apr>Jun 1958 Ashford, Kt
: '39cen Leonard J 30m motor driver (b.20 Dec 1908) at 4 Park View, Pembury, Tonbridge, Kt; Nancy M 24m unpaid domestic duties (b.24 Feb 1915); Pauline G Soper (will m.Mr.Morris '1/2 h/l 21//7/58 te') 3 under school age (b.9 Apr 1936); 4th line temp withheld scan
: 1977 Leonard John Soper d.Apr>Jun 1977 (b.20 Dec 1908)
: Capt 'M P Soper' [as 'H P Soper] R A S C; TA/947; Camp 4PI ; JH/444 date 21/8/7 [notice sent Aug'42?]; Died 17/5/7 [Japan date 1942] ; report to Mrs N T Soper, 42 Hayesway, Beckenham, Kent; Remarks; Diagnosis Beriberi [vit B deficiency] ; scan : [Harold Soper, 42 Hayes Way, 'Beckenham 1513', from 1931 to 1932; London Phone Directory; parents Harold m.Kathleen L Bisley 1915, St. Martin, Lon see]
: Henry William Dommett Soper d.4 Jan 1937 of Oatlands, 15 Copthathall Ave, Lon), Anerley, Kent; died Oatlands; probate Lon 8 Apr 1937 to Margaret Emily Gurney (wife of Russell Gurney), William George Hawkins, certified public accountant; estate �48,080 12s 4d ; from Probate Calender, scan : [Henry W D Soper (c1869-1937) d.Jan>Mar, Bromley, age 68]
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: Arthur Walrond Soper of 'Oatlands' 210 Anerley Rd, Anerley, Kent (d.12 Nov 1936). Admin 7 May 1937 to Margaret Emily Gurney & William George Hawkins. Claims on estate by 20 Aug (London Gazette 15 Jun : Also probate record Ancestry.com) : [brother to HWDS above A W Soper b.Apr>Jun 1877 b.Lewisham, Kent] : [became doctor biog] : [Arthur Walrond Soper b.Apr>Jun 1877 Lewisham, Kent]
: Arthur Walrond Soper d.12 Nov 1936, of 210 Anerley Rd, Anerly, Kent; 'admin (with will)' London 7 May 1937 to Margaret Emily Gurney (wife of Russell Gurney), William George Hawkins, [what relations?] certified public accountant; estate �21,084 12s; from Probate Calender, scan [Arthur W Soper (c1877-1936) d.Oct>Dec, Bromley, age 59]
: 1886 Charles Herbert Soper b.11 Jul 1886 Brockley; b.Jul>Sep 1886, Greenwich, Lon to Thomas & Selina Pitt m.1874
: 1911cen Charles Herbert 24unm bank clerk; b.Brockley with parnts Thomas 59 marine engineer, retired in 11 rooms at 3 Tressillian Crescent, Brockley SE, Greenwich (St Paul); b.Plympton, Dev; Selina 61 {m.36y, 5 births, all alive}; b.Yarmouth, I of W, Hants; Selina Pitt 30unm professor of music, b.Portsmouth; Charles Herbert 24unm bank clerk; b.Brockley & gen servant Elizabeth Maud Rouse 22unm b.Suffolk scan
: 1980 Charles Herbert Soper (1886-1980) d.Jul>Sep 1980, age 95, Bromley, Lon : [Dorothy d.not vis]
: 1920 Henry m.Kate L Chatsworth Oct>Dec 1920, Fulham, Lon (bmd)
: 1939 Henry Soper (c1894-1939) d.Jan>Mar 1939, London City, Lon, age 45
: '39cen Kate L 46w unpaid domestic duties (helping evacuate children) (b.13 Sep 1893) at 440 Abbey Rd, Erith, Kt; 2nd line temp withheld scan
: 1952 Kate Lily Soper (1893-1969) d.Oct>Dec 1969, Colchester, Ex, (b.13 Sep 1893)
: 1945 Norah E Soper m.Frederick W Harvey Apr>Jun 1945, Lewisham, Lon
- b.Apr>Jun 1904, West Ashford, memorial says mother Mrs H Soper
- At least 12 men, women & children died & others injured at Stanhays' Agricultural Engineers Works.
- About 15 Focke Wulf Fw190s fighter bombers made a low-level attack on Ashford, Wed, 24 Mar 1943, presumably aiming for Ashford railway yards? : Article & photo
- William A Soper b.Apr>Jun 1913 Bromley; William Alfred Soper; Pvte in WW2; d.Jul>Sep 1973 Bromley, b.5 Apr 1913
- John H Soper b.Jul>Sep 1914 Bromley : [John Hugh Soper b.c1915; m.Jenny Widdowfield Oct>Dec 1937; d.WW2 1944]
: '91 not vis;
: '01cen Albert Soper 31 pte RMLI; on 'HMS Benbow', 1st class battleship of Reserve Sdrn off Keyham Dockyard; 381 men inc 69 marines & 12 officers at Devonport, Dev; b.Bromley, Kt; scan & scan
: '11cen Albert A 41unm postman b.Dover, Kent; with parents William J 81 police pensioner (policeman crossed out) in 5 rooms at 7 Plaistow Grove, Bromley, Kent, b.Woodbury, Dev, Elizabeth 79 {m.58y, 6 births} b.Torrington, Dev scan
: '39cen Alfred A 70 cold storage supervisor (b.20 Jan 1869) at 2 Lancaster Place, Chislehurst & Sidcup, Kent; Anne C 63 unpaid dom duties (b.15 May 1876); William A 29unm 13s 4d wx r pte nr.634? (b.17 Apr 1910) [but b.1913] [line crossed out; death mark? 5/3/64] scan
: 1944 John Hugh Soper b.1914, parents Alfred A & Annie C lived at St Mary Cray, Orpington, Kt when enlisted in Coldstream Guards. Killed Cassino, Italy, 17 Feb 1944. His wife, Jenny, lived Alloa, Clackmannanshire, Scotland [Medals for sale 2006] source
: 1944 Albert Soper (c1870-1944) d.Jul>Sep 1944, Bromley, Kent, age 74
: 1957 ?Annie C Soper (c1875-1957) d.Oct>Dec 1957, Dartford, Lon, age 82
: 1973 William Alfred Soper d.Jul>Sep 1973 Bromley, b.5 Apr 1913
- Merilyn C Soper b.Oct>Dec 1953 Lewisham (mother ne Powell)
: '39cen Elsie C Powell (will m.Mr Soper 'cjq m.3/12/47 ic') 9 at school (b.26 Mar 1930) at 124 Castlecombe Rd, Chislehurst & Sidcup, Kt; with Alfred C Powell b.24 Mar 1905 timber porter; Charlotte J Powell 21 Mar 1910 udd; Elsie 3rd & Alfred C Powell b.5 Aug 1937 under school age scan
: an assistant caretaker at Canterbury Technical College, (former Sergeant Major) shot insurance agent following a quarrel. Appeared in dock with a heavily bandaged neck following a failed suicide attemp so severe it almost cost him his life & affected his speach, so he could barely be heard giving evidence at his trial. He collapsed when sentance of death passed. google books
: The Home Secretary, decided in case of Ernest Soper Couzins, sentenced to death at Maidstone Assizes 19 Nov, there are not sufficient grounds to justify him recommending interference with the due course of the law; Hull Daily Mail 28 Dec
: ['61cen connection? a Thomas Soper Cousins 8, Blackawton, Dev, parents Samuel & Joanna Soper]
: Earnest Soper Couzins b.Jul>Sep 1900, Devonport, Dev
: '11cen Ernest Soper Couzins 10 in 4 rooms at 75 Renown St, Keysham; b.Devonport, Dev with parents William Couzins 41 ship plumber, Gov Dockyards b.Birkenhead, Cheshire; Henrietta {m.20y, 4 births} b.Plymouth, Dev; William Henry 17 plumber apprentice; Henrietta Florence 16 & Charles Andrew 14 errand boy, drugs store, all b.Devonport scan : [birth c.1900 at Devonport not vis bmd]
: ? an Ernest S Couzins service medal card for Pvt. nr.11511 British Army, Labour Corps & or Pvte nr.16235 Lincolnshire Reg
: Ernest S Couzins m.Elizabeth M Butler Apr>Jun 1921 St Olave, Lon (bmd)
: Ernest Soper Couzins m.Elizabeth Maud Butler; father, William Couzins; ancestry record [pay to see]
: '39cen Margaret Rose Simmons (will m.Mr Soper 'cr283 kc 17/3/54') 8 at school (b.17 Apr 1931) at 6 Sultan St, Beckenham, Kt; with William Simmons b.21 Nov 1886 dust man; Mabel Simmons b.4 May 1889 udd; line 3, 5 & 6 temp withheld; James Simmons b.19 Nov 1923 builder's labourer, unm & Margaret 7th scan : [??perhaps David H b.1929 Lon see]
William Soper d.1709, Samuel Soaper d.1810, Emma Charlotte Soper d.1874 [age 0, bmd; ?parents m.1873], Edward Soper d.1882, John Soper d.1882, Annie Soper d.1883 [b.1883 Sheppey?], John Soper d.1883 [b.1883 Sheppey?], S Soper d.1884, William Soper d.1887, Mary Elizabeth Soper d.1896, William John Soper d.1905, Edith F Soper d.1936, Mary E Soper d.1937, William Robert Soper d.1953 : [too old - '81cen a decorator 36
Sopers Yard, Margate, in a 1929 directory source; photo right from 2016, at 66 King St, before redevelopment as Sopers Yard Store, from geograph.org.uk : [assume origin from William Soper m.1806 , builder & undertaker of 17 Kings St, Margate 1832-1851, or son John at 15 Kings St '51cen, a carpenter employing 12; & at 55 Kings St 1859-1894] : [perhaps street renumbered?]
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